A tribute to Mom!!

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your MAMA/MOMMY/MOTHER/MOM

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 bleach 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!

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