May 11, 2025

This Mother’s Day has me thinking about mothers and how important they are to life. I am feeling a little weepy about the whole idea of moms as this is the first time I will spend the day without mine. A mom is someone we all have, whether they are nearby or afar.   For many of us, sadly, our moms are that far off kind.  The feeling of love is there, but the touch is missing and that is the hardest part. When you lose a mom, the reality does not come all at once.  That is a blessing of sorts I guess because the sadness of loss might feel like too much all at once.  Rather, it comes in waves and in unexpected times and places like when shuffling through a clothing rack at a store and coming across a blouse that mom would like.  I blink back the tears at the idea of never again, and I fear there are a lot of nevers to come in the future. 

Feeling this sadness also makes me feel more appreciative of the people that I still do have in my life.  It is a time to reach out and send love to those around us.  Even if we are not mothers ourselves, everyone has the shared experience of a mother or a person who took us under their wing like a mother would.  I’ve been blessed to have friends who have mentored me in a way that my mother could not. Hopefully, you have someone in your life like that. 

There is a plant called hens and chicks.  The mother succulent sends out lots of little shoots that become baby plants.  Those baby plants eventually become mothers themselves and branch off.  They are separate plants and yet somehow connected…those mothers and babies. That’s how I like to think about motherhood.  We are all living our separate lives and yet somehow all connected.  When I think about my mom’s spirit, I imagine that she is keeping company with a lot of other mother spirits somewhere up there.  They are a very busy group keeping watch over everyone for as they say, once a mother…always a mother.  I imagine too, they are having quite a good laugh at the human shenanigans going on back on earth.  The sound of laughter… that is something I wish for all the mothers here and afar.  Blessings.