In My Mother's Footsteps
by Stephanie Stewart
How many times have you found yourself coping what your parents have repeatedly said or done all your life? More often than not I catch myself doing things the way my mother does them; repeating her ideals and even collecting certain home décor items that I chance on because she
has them. Part of it is because they remind me of her but to the rest is just her worldly wisdom that I am striving to copy for myself. Our folks have the power to hand-down many attributes to us, both negative and positive but I seemed to have chosen to inherit another aspect of my mom's habits; her
quiet knowledge of small things.
Not that I go out of my way to find the same items to decorate my home that she has, quite the contrary. If I do happen upon some item, it is by pure chance and usually it's to be found in a thrift shop like to ones she so often haunts. That too comes from her - my tendency toward
frequenting thrift stores, Sally Ann's and spring to autumn garage sales. Upon reflecting what other of her talents and gifts I may have inherited, I have noticed quite a few. I am more my mother's daughter later in life than I had suspected. My talent and love for writing, however, comes directly from my father who is a skilled
storyteller and poet, although he would think the flattery undeserved.
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Happy Mother's Day,
Beloved Sons and Daughters!
by Patricia Nordman
My precious children!
How can I put into words the joy that is in my heart this Mother's Day? I must confess that so many times I have knelt in the dark of yet another day's end, begging God's forgiveness for my failures with you: my abruptness, harsh words, the ears that hear but tune out your silent pleas
for understanding, the eyes that don't see the hurts of your little hearts, the omissions of simple pleasures and commissions of parental sins. I beg your forgiveness! I want to give you something this Mother's Day: a will of hope and a testament of God's love and mine....more...
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