 Spiritual: May 05, 2021 Issue [#10747] |
This week: Celebrating Mother's Day Edited by: Prosperous Snow celebrating  
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| This edition is dedicated to all the women who have given birth, raised a child, adopted a child, given a child up for adoption, fostered a child, or been the spiritual mother to a child. |
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This Mother's Day, May 9, 2021, will be my ninth Mother's Day without my mother. Her soul ascended into the spiritual realm on November 29, 2012. I encounter something every day that reminds me of Mama, however, Mother's Day memories are special. On Mother's Day, the memories are more numerous and accompanied by both tears and smiles. One of the things that reminds me of Mama is Mother's Day poems. That is because she wrote one, a few years before is passed on.
Mother's Day has come and gone.
A day for Mothers to enjoy with their family,
They have raised and nourished;
That brought their children to be
The good men and women they turned out to be.
Both sons, daughters, and grandchildren,
Have grown into the men and women,
that I am proud of.
As a child, my mother cared for me and my siblings, even though she had to work to support the family. During this time she taught us how to pray and made sure we had a religious or spiritual education. When Mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease our positions were reversed. I became her caregiver until the day she died. However, that was not the first time our positions were reversed.
Mom did not introduce me to the Baha'i Faith, so she was not my spiritual mother. I was the one who introduced her to Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i Faith, so I guess you could say I was Mom's spiritual mother, which was a reversal in our roles.
As Mother's Day approaches, contemplate the mother figures in your life. A mother figure does not have to be the woman who gave birth to you or raised you. A mother figure can be any woman or, indeed, any man that fulfilled the caregiving duties that are usually ascribed to a mother. Who was your mother figure? Do you have a spiritual mother, who helped you on your spiritual journey?
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Excerpt: Options planned
Excerpt: Today is Mother's Day, and 25 years ago, I would have been celebrating this day with my Mother, Florence Henrietta Brown Williams. In November of 1912, Alzheimer's had started ravishing my Mother's mind, and little did I know that we would not celebrate any more Mother's Days.
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The best regarded mother. Not comparable with human race.
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Excerpt: Yashoda is a mother and a wife
And she does her duties exceptionally very well
She sometimes even risk her life
To protect her sons and her husband.
Excerpt: Mesmerized by the painting, the elderly woman stood quietly in the museum day-dreaming while she pondered what might be around the bend and down the path. "I wish I was walking down a road like this right now." She was thinking about the stark comparison between the dirt road meandering through this autumn scene and the dreary, drab city street she lived on.
Excerpt: In wasted burgundy gown,
Mother wears a lovely frown.
Lilies roost in sunlit porch
that summers love soon will scorch.
Excerpt: I've always cried when I thought of the simple faith that my mother has shown both my brother and me, and how strength often comes through hard trials. She always thought in simple terms and never complicated things through long explanations or analysis. Even though she did not attend church often, there were always books at the home about God and the Bible to be read when we were little. I still remember the book of Bible stories that seemed warm and familiar once I started attending a small, nondenominational church while in middle school.
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