A GOOD MOTHER
What was it like to hear my first cry as I emerged from your womb? What was it like to hold me for the first time as I lay limb in your arms? What was it like to see my eyes for the first time as they absorbed and embraced the colors of the world that was awaiting my arrival? What was it like to see me and know that God chose you to be part of His plan to co-create destiny? I did not know what it was like for you but I could imagine it by how you have loved me.
To have been your daughter meant that I was a walking answer to your prayer. I walked with two legs that brought me to my first day of school, my first prom, and my college graduation. I talked with words that made friends, shunned enemies, and encouraged the hurting. I thought with a mind that have endured adversities, embraced adulthood, and coped with heartbreak.
I am surviving the life that you may not have chosen for me, but hoping that I overcome. I overcome when I look at you. To be at a place in life where you can look over all your life’s events and still know that your life is part of the reason why I have been given the chance to live mine.
You can still hear my cries and know. You can still hold my pain and know. You can still see my vision and know. It is in your knowing that I know that I can be whatever I dream to be because you dreamed it first.
MOTHER, today I honor you because you have lived long enough to know how important it was to be part of God’s plan
for me.
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! But why I am so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!” Luke 1:41-45 (New International Version.
Teresa Barnes, MSW, LCSW
Clinical Therapist
