5/11/08

For All the Mothers

A Mother
A mother is the person in our life who
loves us more than we love ourselves…
and slightly less than God loves us.

A mother is the person in our life who
anticipates all our needs…pushing her own
to the background so ours can be met.

A mother is the person in our life who has infinite
patience with our shortcomings…she thinks we can
do no wrong.

A mother is the person in our life who has a real
interest in our success…always hoping we
do well, and yet afraid we will outgrow her.

A mother is the person in our life who is
most likely to forgive us when we go
wrong…and wonders why the world
will not do the same.

A mother is the person in our life who makes a home out
of a house, no matter how modest…with her warmth, her
love, her generosity, her patience, her very being.

A mother is the person in our life who offers us constant
refuge from the storms of life…comforting us in illness, hurts,
and failures.

A mother is the person in our life who has unlimited faith
in us…knowing that someday we will remember all she taught
us about living, when we were young.

A mother is the person in our life who measures her
very existence by the values she has instilled in us…
sharing secretly in our worthiness.

A mother is the person in our life we most often take
for granted…and the one we will miss the most after she has
gone to live with God.

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