A Timeless mother

Written by: Brett O. Smith

Courtesy of: www.sweetwatertxnews.blogspot.com

The time has come to go searching for that special gift again for Mother, Mom, Mum, Mama’, Ma. Well, you get the point right?

Isn’t it funny how at times we talk about our mothers on Mother’s Day in a past tense?

When we remember how they took care of us when we were young, or how they talked of caring for us when we were baby’s.

Don’t get me wrong about this stage of motherhood. This is a very important time as a child, and for the mother. Probably the most important from the first day that little child’s eyes open and see’s mommy. It’s a time of trust, shelter, love, warmth, and life. It is just as important for fathers to, but in a different way. Speaking from experience as a daddy myself. We didn’t carry that little one around for months as it grew inside us and would feed off of our own body system.

One thing I have noticed. We always speak of our mothers from when we were young and up to our teens. After all that is the growing stage before we go out into the big world on our own.

What about the here and now? Mothers do some much for us even when we are older. We just don’t always have them around us to see how obvious it is.

Mothers instill this piece of us inside that makes us caring, loving, and even understanding. Believe it or not even in most men this is true to. We just don’t want to make it to noticeable with the ones we care for.

It seems like the older we get, the more we just give our mothers a hug and a card to say thank you. As if we were going through the motions of a tradition that has been around for years and years.

If anything, the older we get the more we should give to our mothers on Mother’s Day. For the support they give us, when they may disagree with something going on in our lives, or some things we have done even in the past. Even when our mothers are not close, do to circumstances. They are always with us with prayer, letters, or just even a simple email or text saying, “Hi! Love you!”

The funny thing is, it’s not so much the gifts from us that seem to really matter when we are older to our mothers. But, the recognition that we have not forgotten about them and that we appreciate everything that they have done for us in the past as well as in the present.

Not to mention don’t for get the grandmothers either. For they are mothers also to our own mother or father. Unfortunately, in the world today even grandmothers are becoming more of a mother figure. Do to family break-ups, divorces, etc.

So this Mother’s Day be sure to give thanks to all the mother figures who have touched your life.

To all mother’s and grandmothers have a Happy Mother’s Day and blessings.

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