Sunday May 11, 2007

Today is Mother’s Day! Of course we now that everyday is really Mother’s Day. Children who understand what mom did just to birth them know she deserves their respect, love, and loyalty.

There really is nothing like a mom. Dads are good, but moms are special. Dad teaches us how to use a hammer but mom kisses the finger that mean ‘ole hammer hit.

Washington Erving wrote: “A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” If you really want to upset a woman upset her child.

I once watched a mom sit in a court room while her son was being tried for murder. He was guilty and even though she admitted what he did was very, very wrong she still loved her son enough to come and be supportive … not of what he had done but of him. A mother’s love is unending. It probably is the closest thing to God’s love we have on the earth.

A godly mother is always cutting the apron string. A little bit is cut each year until there is none left. This is the time when the child can stand on his own feet and like the mother Eagle she takes her child from the nest and drops him so that he has to fly on his own.

Erich Fromm wrote “The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

God’s word is full of scripture relating to mothers. There are good ones and bad ones in scripture. The Worthy Woman of Proverbs 31 is read the most. Truly a man works from sun to sun but a woman’s work is never done.

Enjoy your mom. Tell her you love her often. One day, very soon, if she is not already gone from this life,

she will be and you’ll wish you’d told her you loved her more while she was with you.

Happy Mother’s Day!