Mother’s Day always makes me think for a while. How perfect the roles are that God has designed for us to live out. How the female gene multiplies over different generations and how you can always after many years, see something of yourself in you mother, she sees something in her mother, and so it goes on.
It makes me think about the specific characteristic my sisters and I can carry on from our amazing grandmothers and mother to our own daughters.
Will we attain the humble characteristic of a God-loving and hard-working mother to pass on to our children? I sure hope so.
I see me in you
I fall short of words
When I think of my mother
To me it confirms
A mum like no other
A century divide in four
After seasons of love and war
You’ve loved me forevermore
Words fail me more and more
Can ‘thank you’ do it?
Just two words in ink
Or should I rather admit
There’s no way to think
But let’s give it a try
For me to show
The life that you live by
So here I go:
Thank you, Mum,
For the woman I’ve become,
For 25 years
Of prayers, love and tears
Through dark and light
You’ve held my hand
Stayed up ‘till midnight
Till you’ve put me to bed
When I look in your eyes
So light and blue
It is easy to realize
I see me in you
You’re a cook and a cleaner
Multi-tasker and fast thinker
A healer and seamer
Of a broken heart or finger
You love coffee in the morning
To ease your bedtime snoring
Sitting with a book in bed
To get ready for the day ahead
Mom, it may feel like you’ve failed
Sometimes,
But know that you nailed it,
Most days
Today, your house is clean
You’ve served your role
No children to be seen
You’ve reached your goal
On this day, know that you’re loved
By God and four children thereof
I often wonder why I get to have the best
Mum,
you are a blest!
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