Mom - A Double Portion of Life

My Beautiful Mom

The First

• You carried me physically for 9 months getting to know me only by my movements inside and for me, by hearing your voice.
• At last, face to face on that special day, my entry into the bright and cold world.
• I don't recall that day but in knowing you, I'm sure it was a special embrace. 
• Though not a memory, a foundation was built, a mother's powerful love.  
• A foundation for sure, a deep unconditional love whose roots ran broad.
• Thus, the first life began.

The Second

• A foundation laid and life well on the way.
• A whisper of new life?  How could that be?
• Life greater than what I already had?
• A pointing toward something higher.
• A yielding to something greater.
• A conversation with someOne beyond.
• A faith observed, a belief not understood.
• A glimpse of the beauty, distant and fuzzy.
• A challenge occasionally to read about the One.
• A friend I began to know only by observation.
• A friend I carried and talked to occasionally.
• A friend?  Could He be more than that?  This mind You gave me, it could not see, it could not make sense, the math did not add up.
• A whisper of new life?  An observation of someOne beyond....
• A spit out the bones moment!
• Grace, how could it be true?
• Grace, is that what those stories are about?  Too good to be true.
• Grace, go back and read it again.  How could I have missed it - I read it so many times before.
• Yes, Grace - I see it slipping into the picture.
• Grace, was it just a story or two?
• Nope, I see it there and there too!
• Grace, too good to be true?...  
• Broken before you, I saw for the first time with eyes wide open....   GRACE!  Scandalous and true.
• Grace, new life began, new eyes did see.
• Grace, a filling replacing the leak.
• Grace, a knowing of someOne higher.
• Grace, a yielding to someOne greater.
• Grace, a conversation with someOne beyond.
• Grace, a faith experienced, a belief understood
• Jesus, a new life to share!

Happy Mothers Day 2016 Mom!  I love you...