HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY WITH LOVE

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This is a truly BEAUTIFUL piece. Please read this at

a slow pace, digesting every word and in leisure...

do not hurry....this is a treasure...

For those lucky to still be blessed with your Mom,

this is beautiful. For those of us who aren't, this is

even more beautiful. For those who are moms,

you'll love this.

The young mother set her foot on the path of life.

'Is this the long way?' she asked.

And the guide said: 'Yes, and the way is hard.

And you will be old before you reach the end of it.

But the end will be better than the beginning.'

But the young mother was happy, and she would not

believe that anything could be better than these years.

So she played with her children, and gathered flowers for

them along the way, and bathed them in the clear streams;

and the sun shone on them, and the young Mother cried,

'Nothing will ever be lovelier than this.'

Then the night came, and the storm, and the path was dark,

and the children shook with fear and cold, and the mother

drew them close and covered them with her mantle, and the

children said, 'Mother, we are not afraid, for you are near,

and no harm can come.'

And the morning came, and there was a hill ahead,

and the children climbed and grew weary, and the

mother was weary. But at all times she said to the

children,' A little patience and we are there.'

So the children climbed, and when they reached the top

they said, 'Mother, we would not have done it without you.'

And the mother, when she lay down at night looked up

at the stars and said, 'This is a better day than the last,

for my children have learned fortitude in the face of

hardness. Yesterday I gave them courage.

Today, I've given them strength.'

And the next day came strange clouds which darkened

the earth, clouds of war and hate and evil, and the

children groped and stumbled, and the mother said:

'Look up. Lift your eyes to the light.'

And the children looked and saw above the clouds

an everlasting glory, and it guided them beyond the

darkness. And that night the Mother said, 'This is the

best day of all, for I have shown my children God.'

And the days went on, and the weeks and the months

and the years, and the mother grew old and she was

little and bent. But her children were tall and strong,

and walked with courage. And when the way was rough,

they lifted her, for she was as light as a feather; and at

last they came to a hill, and beyond they could see a

shining road and golden gates flung wide. And mother said,

'I have reached the end of my journey. And now I know

the end is better than the beginning, for my children can

walk alone, and their children after them.'

And the children said, 'You will always walk with us,

Mother, even when you have gone through the gates.'

And they stood and watched her as she went on alone,

and the gates closed after her.

And they said: 'We cannot see her but she is with us still.

A Mother like ours is more than a memory. She is a living

presence.......'

Your Mother is always with you.... She's the whisper

of the leaves as you walk down the street;

she's the smell of soap in your freshly laundered socks;

she's the cool hand on your brow when you're not well.

Your Mother lives inside your laughter.

And she's crystallized in every tear drop.

She's the place you came from, your first home;

and she's the map you follow with every step you take.

She's your first love and your first heartbreak,

and nothing on earth can separate you.

Not time, not space... not even death!

PASS THIS ON TO ALL THE MOTHERS & CHILDREN YOU KNOW.

MAY WE NEVER TAKE OUR MOTHERS FOR GRANTED...

Pass it on to the men too because they have mothers too....

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