As Mother's Day approaches, I find myself filled with nostalgia and reminiscence of an enchanted childhood that holds such special memories.
I can still remember what her fingers felt like in my hair, weaving beautiful french braids that she would adorn with flowers. I remember that she always had my artwork professionally framed and how it hung proudly on our walls. I remember the hand-smocked dresses that I wore to school. I remember how she painted a giant bonnet-wearing goose on plywood that would become my headboard & "protector." And I remember how she taught me to sign my name - a talent for which I still receive accolades.
I will hold these memories especially close to me on this particular Mother's day - as is often the case when those that we love experience a loss. I face Sunday with a heavy heart. One friend has lost his mother, and another has lost her little baby. Which makes wondering what I'll ever do to comfort them more pressing than which book or perfume I should buy for my own mother. In fact, I've never been quite so aware of how much she might appreciate the simple sentences above much more than either.
I have also never been more acutely aware of the fact that a "holiday" isn't always just that to everyone. I remember the story of Allie & Holden Caulfield. I remember how their story taught me that you don't stop loving someone just because they die. And I remember another story that I want to share with all of you.
A Mother's story.
It’s a simple story. The story of a four-year-old little boy whose next door neighbor had suffered the loss of his wife and soul mate. I don’t know the little boy’s name but I do know that his mother must have been proud and that his story taught me so much about how to really be there for someone.
On that sad day, as his neighbor sat on the porch next door, the little one wandered over and climbed upon his lap to sit with him for quite some time. And later on, when he returned home, his mother asked him what he had said to the man. So he told her . . . “Nothing, I just helped him cry.”
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