Mothers Day 2024

 A 12th Mothers Day has passed......since you passed, Mom.

Hardly seems possible....because, truth be told....I have felt the warmth of you with me each day of those 12 years. I may not be able to physically hold your hand today, Mom, but I have something even greater: I have a piece of you living inside of me.

Your smile, your voice, your wisdom.....they are all still wildly alive within my soul. So you see, Mom, you didn't die....you've never been more alive than you are right now!!

And this daughter.....well, she wouldn't have it any other way.

Happy Mother's Day to the Greatest Mom To Ever Live

The Gift Of A Mom - Mothers Day 2023

 MOTHERS DAY

LizEtheridgeSekerke

Mary stood at the foot of the cross her young Son was dying on……

Jesus saw His mother and the disciple He loved standing near her.

So He said to His mother,

“Woman, here is your son."

Then He said to the disciple,

“Here is your mother."

From that moment, the disciple accepted her as his own MOTHER."

John 19:25-27

I love that even in His darkest moment, Jesus made sure His Mom was taken care of after He was gone. He knew that an arrow was piercing her own soul as much as it was His side, so He gifted His Mom to John, the disciple He loved and trusted.

My mom died two weeks before Mothers Day 11 years ago. I dreaded going through that weekend without her.....I was childless and now I was motherless. But then I received a call. A call from a lady named Pam in Winnsboro, Texas.......a lady I had met over the years as I delivered Meals on Wheels to her own elderly mother......and Pam offered to share her mother with me that weekend.

And so she did.

She invited me to Sunday lunch with the whole family......to celebrate this lady she called Mom and I called Jewel. She gifted me with love.....this sweet daughter gifted me her Mom.

It was probably one of the kindest things anyone has ever done for me. She knew my heart was piercing; aching to feel the touch of a wrinkled hand touching my cheek....longing to smell the Estee Lauder perfume that always arrived moments prior to Mom entering a room. She knew my heart had a crack in it.....so she handed me her heart......and her very own Mom.

The Gift of a Mom......I think God had it right creating her from the rib of man....the rib always keeps the heart safe.

Valley of Shadow of Death or Road to Life

 Valley of Shadow of Death or Road to Life

 

Today......marks 10 years since Mom died. Just hours before she left this earth for good in a quaint simple home in Garland, my entire family held hands while gathered around her bed and prayed the Lords Prayer over this shell-of-a-woman who had shaped and glued her family together while on this earth. 

 

When people simply let their scars meet - Healing Truth can meet their scars.

 

We knew our time with her was short....and we knew she was walking at that very moment through the Shadow of Death. 

 

We walked this death trail with her until we came to the split in the road. 

 

We kissed her good-bye, told her we would see her soon and sent her down the path to the Road to Life....all the while blowing her kisses as she never looked back.

 

Our hearts were broke, cracked, bleeding and scarred.....much like Christ's body.....yet strangely peaceful.

 

And this day of remembering a Mom so deeply loved, who walked a hilly and dusty path with each of her kids and grand kids, teaching us all what the love of Christ looked like, is the same path Christ walked with His two followers that important day He walked to Ammeus. A road between the Shadow of Death and the Road to Life.

 

"...and their eyes were opened, and they recognized Him..."

 

~ Luke 24:31