Mothers Day 2020

To my mother,

thank you for teaching me by the way you lived to love reading, explore nature, and make things.

Thank you for making delicious food, so I would know how to recognize and make it myself.

Thank you for teaching me to love children and see the best in others, and to courageously do the work set before me no matter what it is.

Thank you for teaching me to recognise when the Holy Spirit is speaking to me, and for being a living example of Christ-like love in action.

Thank you for helping me to see what was at stake when I was young and foolish and considering abandoning my faith. You saved generations with one wise question. All the the good things in my life seem to flow from you.

To my mother-in-law,

thank you for raising a boy who is honest and hard-working, and who knows how to stop working and have fun with his kids.

Thank you for raising a man who values education and finds poetry in living. I needed him.

Thanking for adding love and beauty to my life.