Mother's Day Meditation

[judyrussellmom]

As a daughter, daughter-in-law and mother, I feel compelled to share my reflections on Mother's Day. My initial reaction each year is more than a little bit of irritation. Are we really so inept that we would not thank, and be thankful for, our mothers if Hallmark did not remind us of them once a year? Are we so busy, so self-centered, that we need

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[coffeyaz]

I'm deeply touched by my daughter's blog above and by the, not one, but three cards she sent. As I see friends with children and grandchildren around them this week I wish there were not so many miles separating my family, and enjoy what time we have together. I'd like to share a poem that I wrote on my daughter's wedding day. Their stretching in my womb crumbled apart my walls of self containment. After years of loving, bruising hugs, I cherish once again whole days of silver solitude...still leaving chinks and apertures where tendrils of affection reach through to keep the sheltering walls from hardening into a tomb of total silence, airless and dark. I think that death must be the final evaporation of all the stone-hard battlements, setting us free at last, no longer child or mother separated by self-prisoning walls but pulsing with warm and golden glow of perfect love...encompassing eternally us all.

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[judyrussellmom]

You express it so beautifully. Thank you for sharing this with me once again -- and with the children who will no doubt see it here and gain a deeper appreciation of your beautiful spirit.

[thekenosis]

Maybe you're logging a gentle protest against Mother's Day, but as a son who wouldn't be nearly so well off without you I contend that one day is hardly sufficient. Let's have a Mother's Week, and even then the debt would hardly be paid.

And I owe it all to you...

[judyrussellmom]

It is really I who should be thanking you for making me a mother. (Yet another advantage of the being the oldest child - Mike and Catherine can't claim that accomplishment!)

I don't know if you remember, but when you all were little I used to give you each a gift on Mother's Day. That still seems most appropriate -- for me to thank each of you for allowing me to be your mother.

And when you do thank me, you do it with such grace and conviction that I actually believe that you like having me for a mother almost as much as I like having you for my children.

I am indeed blessed and I count all three of my blessing every single day (not just on Mother's Day).

I love you!