May.09.02: Light For The Day - "For Mothers"

God is love, so He made mothers.
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President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, made the official
announcement proclaiming Mother's Day as a national
holiday that was to be held each year on
the 2nd Sunday of May.

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"Let your father and mother be proud of you;
give your mother that happiness."
-- Proverbs 23:25 (TEV)

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ON MOTHERHOOD

A mother's love is like a circle,
it has no beginning and no ending.
It keeps going around and around
ever expanding, touching everyone

who comes in contact with it.
Engulfing them like the morning's mist,
warming them like the noontime sun,
and covering them
like a blanket of evening stars.

A mother's love is like a circle,
it has no beginning and no ending.

-- Unknown

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"FOR MY MOTHER"

Growing up at such a fitfull pace,
In a time that was always trying;
Never knowing what life had in store;
No half way between laughter and crying.....

There has always been someone near me,
Who has given, much more than she's gotten.
Never expected, complained, or questioned,
When her deeds were quickly forgotten.

There were things that I saw, in this woman;
That, as a child, I was sure I could be.
But, as I grew into someone else.....
She, still, remained true to me.

Through my trials and tribulations.
Through my good times, and my strife.
She has always been my roots and wings,
Since the day she gave me life!

She has given up, so very much, of her own life,
To make ours worth living.
And, though, we've often let her down;
Her soul just keeps on giving.

Now, that my life is in question,
I find myself, often, in thought.....
Wondering if I've done, or said it all,
And finding, that I really, have not.

If only.....I could find a way,
To let her know, how I love her.
The adoration and real respect,
That I feel, just floats above her.

So, these words are for this woman,
Who is always firm in my heart.
Knowing.....when God calls on one of us,
We will, in memory, never part.

But then again, we never know.....
So I pray, to the Lord above;
"Let me raise my kids, like she did",
"In the warmth of a Mother's love."

You've always had a hand to lend,
Or to hold, like no other....
I'm proud to call you, my best friend,
And with great honor, I call you Mother!

-- Forever, Jackie.

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"Honor your father and mother
(this is the first commandment with a promise)
that it may be well with you and that you may
live long on the earth."
-- Ephesians 6:2 (RSV)

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There is a religion in all deep love,
but the love of a mother is the veil of a softer light
between the heart and the heavenly Father.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge