Happy Mother’s Day, Ya”ll!

May 8, 2011

Just can’t say enough about my own mom. Today is the day we all start to think about our mothers and the role they have played in our lives. I have been blessed. I know that not everyone can say that they have had a good relationship with their mom but I always have. Well… other than a few years in teenagedom when there was a lot of eye rolling on my part and I thought she knew absolutely nothing!!! Thank goodness I came to my senses.

One of my new bloggy friends is quite talented and I asked him if I could share his Mother’s Day tribute which he agreed to. Thanks, J!!! I am posting it below and hope that you enjoy it. Much better words than I could write. Please check out his blog at Poems and Ponderings if you have a minute.  It is well worth the trip, let me tell you!

And to all the moms out there—Happy Mother’s Day!  Enjoy!!!

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

You filled a space,

no other could,

you taught me always,

think the good,

of those I meet,

along the way,

and sunrise brings,

a whole new day.

Dwell not upon,

a hurt or slight,

and let the heart decide,

the wrong or right,

of what I do,

or what is done,

then let it go,

with the setting sun.

But, of all the lessons,

I have learned,

there’s but one upon,

my soul’s been burned,

there is no stronger,

force on earth,

nor gift of any,

greater worth.

Than a mother’s love,

that’s given free,

to each of us,

for eternity,

and wavers not,

in life or death,

it never takes,

a final breath.

Jack Downing

May 2009