One of the struggles in human life is that we all want to be liked. We want to be affirmed. Being a parent, especially a mom, means that you will have to decide which is most important. Is it more important for your child to like you or for your child to have a mother? It is my prayer that you choose the latter. Too many moms today try to be their children's best friends when their children need a mom!
Your child will have many other friends. They will have only one mother.
The best definition of successful parenting that I have heard is to work yourself out of a job. It is a tedious balance of holding on and letting go. Ultimately if you succeed, you have let go.
The other major decision that a mom has to make is whether to give greatest value to this world or to the world of the unseen--the spiritual world. A mom teaches her children the faith by example and by word. A mom teaches her children that the gift of eternity is the greatest gift. It is the gift that is characterized by love.
This mother's day celebrate. Maybe you were fortunate to have a mom who gave you the greater values in life. Maybe your mom struggled. Maybe even your mom was a failure. Even if your mom was not the greatest mom in the world, you can find something to celebrate. Then you can give yourself to giving to the children of the world the best things in life.
A successful business man was once asked what made him what he was. His answer was, "My mom was a mother who gave me the vision and touch of love,--God's love--then she let me go!"
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