Mother; the very word symbolizes a wealth of love and caring. Your heart is clutched and drawn toward the one woman you consider mother.
She is the one you long for in your worst night. Her reassuring words and uplifting spirit can lift the burdens from your heart, and when you triumph you long for her praise.
No one else can take her place in your heart and if she passes too early-any age is too early-you mourn the rest of your life.
My heart is hurting for my granddaughter, Sierra, who just gave birth to little Milani. She had had to have a cesarean section because Milani's heart rate dropped during contractions. She needed her mother to hold her hand and comfort and reassure her, but her mother, my daughter, Becky, had passed away in 2008. Sierra was strong and did a beautiful job but the one pain that was hardest to bare was the fact of the empty chair beside her. Terrance, her husband, and his mother, Rhonda, were beside her all the way, and her brothers were there to support her, and so she smiled and became a woman and a mother. She had done the entire procedure without complaint; she was a tribute to her pioneer stock.
Now she has so many questions that she wants to ask her mother, and her advice would be priceless to Sierra. She wishes that she could just pick up the phone and call her; a wish many of us have. Now she must learn to be a mother on her own but she has been reading for the basic facts and the rest just seems to come naturally. It is beautiful to watch Sierra take care of Milani. Her face shines so bright with love and joy.
I believe that motherhood is given special blessings of endurance and tolerance and a heart that is loving and forgiving. Were it not so, none of us would survive the first two years of life because good mothering takes total commitment to the welfare of the child and a certain strength of purpose.
Sierra will find that she will have access to her mother through her heart. For mothers watch out for their children even after they pass, and the dimension that they are in is mere inches from ourselves. We cannot yet see into this dimension but we can feel it in our being when a loved one draws near to us, and sometimes hear messages of love and guidance when we least expect it. Becky will guide Sierra through her heart and warn her of impending danger. Becky will stand guard over Milani all of her life and prompt Sierra when trouble arises. The mother-child bond is eternal and powerful.
Thank God for our mothers.
She is the one you long for in your worst night. Her reassuring words and uplifting spirit can lift the burdens from your heart, and when you triumph you long for her praise.
No one else can take her place in your heart and if she passes too early-any age is too early-you mourn the rest of your life.
My heart is hurting for my granddaughter, Sierra, who just gave birth to little Milani. She had had to have a cesarean section because Milani's heart rate dropped during contractions. She needed her mother to hold her hand and comfort and reassure her, but her mother, my daughter, Becky, had passed away in 2008. Sierra was strong and did a beautiful job but the one pain that was hardest to bare was the fact of the empty chair beside her. Terrance, her husband, and his mother, Rhonda, were beside her all the way, and her brothers were there to support her, and so she smiled and became a woman and a mother. She had done the entire procedure without complaint; she was a tribute to her pioneer stock.
Now she has so many questions that she wants to ask her mother, and her advice would be priceless to Sierra. She wishes that she could just pick up the phone and call her; a wish many of us have. Now she must learn to be a mother on her own but she has been reading for the basic facts and the rest just seems to come naturally. It is beautiful to watch Sierra take care of Milani. Her face shines so bright with love and joy.
I believe that motherhood is given special blessings of endurance and tolerance and a heart that is loving and forgiving. Were it not so, none of us would survive the first two years of life because good mothering takes total commitment to the welfare of the child and a certain strength of purpose.
Sierra will find that she will have access to her mother through her heart. For mothers watch out for their children even after they pass, and the dimension that they are in is mere inches from ourselves. We cannot yet see into this dimension but we can feel it in our being when a loved one draws near to us, and sometimes hear messages of love and guidance when we least expect it. Becky will guide Sierra through her heart and warn her of impending danger. Becky will stand guard over Milani all of her life and prompt Sierra when trouble arises. The mother-child bond is eternal and powerful.
Thank God for our mothers.
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