Just can’t say enough about my own mom. Today is the day we all start to think about our mothers and the role they have played in our lives. I have been blessed. I know that not everyone can say that they have had a good relationship with their mom but I always have. Well… other than a few years in teenagedom when there was a lot of eye rolling on my part and I thought she knew absolutely nothing!!! Thank goodness I came to my senses.

One of my new bloggy friends is quite talented and I asked him if I could share his Mother’s Day tribute which he agreed to. Thanks, J!!! I am posting it below and hope that you enjoy it. Much better words than I could write. Please check out his blog at Poems and Ponderings if you have a minute.  It is well worth the trip, let me tell you!

And to all the moms out there—Happy Mother’s Day!  Enjoy!!!

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

You filled a space,

no other could,

you taught me always,

think the good,

of those I meet,

along the way,

and sunrise brings,

a whole new day.

Dwell not upon,

a hurt or slight,

and let the heart decide,

the wrong or right,

of what I do,

or what is done,

then let it go,

with the setting sun.

But, of all the lessons,

I have learned,

there’s but one upon,

my soul’s been burned,

there is no stronger,

force on earth,

nor gift of any,

greater worth.

Than a mother’s love,

that’s given free,

to each of us,

for eternity,

and wavers not,

in life or death,

it never takes,

a final breath.

Jack Downing

May 2009