Motherless
Moms remembering our mothers on Mother’s Day
For their sixth wedding anniversary
Dad bought Mom and brand-new Bernard Stein piano. Back then it was trendy to
have a sing-song around the piano, and Dad enjoyed singing. Mom and Dad went
into town one Saturday morning and bought some sheet music of popular songs of
the day. One of these was called MOTHER.
Remembering the chorus this
Mother’s Day, I pay tribute to our dearest Mom – ‘sweet Evelyn’.
M – ‘Is for the million
things you gave me’. When you were
widowed so young Mom, you couldn’t afford to give us a million things – but
what we lacked in material goodies, you made up with love!
O – ‘Means that you’re
growing old’. How difficult it was
watching you grow old and so forgetful.
“Who is this good-looking young
man” you asked me one day.
“This is John Mom. My husband”
“You’re married?”
“Yes, for some time now”
“And you never told me!”
T – ‘Is for the tears you
shed to save me.’ This I could never
understand as a child. I imagined my mother holding a little bottle under her
eyes to catch her tears for me. I thought - what for?
H – ‘Is for her heart of
purest gold.’ That it surely was – and warm
too
E – ‘Is for her eyes with
love-light shining’ but I remember those
eyes aiming daggers at me from the other side of the room when I was doing something
wrong!
R – ‘Means right, and
right she’ll always be’ – I still count
on Mom’s wisdom and pray for her guidance.
‘Put them all together, they spell
MOTHER. The word that (still) means the world to me’.
We
thought of you with love today, but that is nothing new
We
thought about you yesterday and days before that too.
We
think of you in silence, we often speak your name
All
we have now are memories and your picture in a frame.
Your
memory is our keepsake with whom we will never part
God
has you in His keeping, we have you in our hearts!
