A Special Tribute To Mothers

 May 14, 2006

By: Sellers S. Crain, Jr.

    * Many tributes have been paid to mothers.  Let me share one with you that is especially meaningful.

            What is a Mother?

    A mother, human though she may be, is a wonderful creature whose love knows no bounds- never wavering, never waning.  She is perhaps the rarest of all of God's creatures, for she is the truest.

    From the first day she became a mother, hers is a strange destiny.  She has no eight hour days, no five day weeks, no nine to fives, her twenty-four hours are crowded full of chores and cries.  Her nerves must be made of steel and her fortitude near superhuman.  She is a specialist and jack-of-all-trades, a baby sitter, and a laundress, a nurse and a cook, a housekeeper and a maid, a chauffer and a counselor, and countless other things.  She is endowed with the gift of knowing.  Knowing when to laugh and when to cry, when to be firm and when to be tender.

    A mother is skilled at wiping away tears, soothing hurt feelings, mending broken toys, ironing frilly dresses and patching blue jeans.  She is resigned to dirty diapers, and Pabulum on the floor, to strewn clothes, baseball bats, dolls, skates and a multitude of other things belonging to a child's world.

    A mother copes with all kinds of situations:  The first day of school, the first date, the first broken heart, nights of worry over late dates, auto accidents and teenage escapades.

    But after all is said and done, a mother is a lonely woman when her children are grown up and gone.  Then her life is changed and somehow sad, though finally free, she is then wondering about adults - her children - where they are, what they are doing - and telling herself they still love her, and need her just as much as they used to, while missing days when the patter of little feet echoed through the house.

    What is a mother?  She is one person you always expect to be there when you need her, though you know one day she won't be.  Mother is the wonderful memory of childhood, that tender guide of youth - that one unforgettable person who made a house a home.

Author Unknown

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

 Brotherly,

Sellers