My Mom was special - I bet your Mom is (or was) special, too. Sunday May 12th is Mother’s Day. In mind; in memory; or in person; be sure to make it a special day for your Mom. Sending flowers is not enough. Make her the center of your attention, even if only for one day.
My wife is a special Mom. She continues to lovingly mother our grown boys and our grandchildren even while their father worries, “How do I get all of these kids off the payroll?” But I digress. She keeps our entire, extended family together.
Our Moms have a special sense of humor:
A wife invited some people to
dinner. At the table, she turned to
their six-year-old daughter and said, “Would you like to say the blessing?” I wouldn’t know what to say”, the girl
replied. “Just say what you hear Mommy
say”, the wife answered. The daughter
bowed her head and said, “Lord, why on earth did I invite all these people to
dinner?”
Unknown Sage
Our Moms are special teachers. Remember the life-long lessons you learned from your Mother? Back to our Unknown Sage:
What my Mother taught me:
My Mother taught me logic;
“Because I said so, that's
why.”
My Mother taught me irony;
“Keep laughing and I'll give
you something to cry about.”
My Mother taught me about the
science of osmosis:
“Shut your mouth and eat your supper!"
Even Bill Gates has a take (including Mom and Dad in his reference to his parents - and ours):
Excerpt from Bill Gates' speech
to Mount Whitney High School, Visalia, CA:
Rule 7 - Before you were born, your parents weren't
as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills,
cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you
were. So before you save the rain forest
from the parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in
your own room.
Our Moms have a special and immeasurable
reservoir of power, true? My Mom did. She was stricken with cancer when I was 6 years
old. In fact, I can not remember a time
when she was not ill. The last 15 years
of her life were spent undergoing continuous treatments:
I
watched my Mom’s great power, which she needed in order to deal with a new
cancer treatment in the late 1960’s that was so unimaginably harsh – that the
administration of this treatment was solely based on the primitive science of
trial and error – where the doctors’ routine consisted of observing how much of
a dose could she tolerate without dying from the treatment.
It was an experimental treatment back then; offered only as a last resort for terminally ill cancer patients. This wasn’t a cancer cure; just a radical option to extend one’s life another year or two. It was due to her staying power (and that of many other patients like her) before she finally succumbed in 1974, that has helped pave the way to the development of the commonly used, life-saving cancer treatment we all know today as chemotherapy.
How many special Moms have died fighting terrible diseases (and brutal treatments) so the rest of us can benefit from the exaggerated term, “modern medicine”?
Mother’s Day - make it special for your Mom if she’s living; make it special for you through your memories of your Mom if she’s not.
GAP
When life gets tough we could get a helmet… or…
we could leverage the peace and share the power of a positive perspective.
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