Sunday, August 4, 2024

Mom Margie! Life-celebration! (Part 8 of 17)

 Happy Mother’s Day!
(May 14, 2023 Celebrate!)
 
Saints! & Angels!---God’s-Passion!...and…holy-sacred “Mothers”!
 
Pray (simple-humble) I: Thank Thee! Lord! For Dear-Angelic Mom! Amen!
 
1st person I knew to Cherish-Love!---My beginning!...In Time & Space an exemplar-mentor!
Special! Perfect! Saintly-Angel! “Mom”!---How very “Lucky”! My heaven-“gift”! Amen!
Safe harbor-refuge should any storm-of-life Dare-threaten!---Exempler!...Sacred Class-act!
Beautiful! Intelligent! Reverent! Understanding! Forgiving! Supportive! Impeccable-housekeeper! Gourmet-chef! All-knowing! Ever-present! Forever-there to make-the-Best-of-it!
Thanks! Mom! For “any & every” sacred-holy “all-of-it” absent “accusation-blame”! Trust!
A “Truth”-foundation---A life of Family-focused emotion-devotion!...Liberty-Freedom Love!
When I wanted to be a real-life “cowboy” at tender age-of-5, Mom outfitted her “idea”-bound son with jeans, a western shirt, cowboy-hat, western black-boots (she painted the white-insets with shoe polish craftily utilizing a toothpick), holstered six-shooters, a lariat and sacred encouragement to Dare-dream (the-bigger/the-better). Both parents “helped” and mentored my lawn-mowing indoctrination at 6 years-of-age; they did most of the work, but I learned the value of labor and the virtue of satisfaction in a job-well-done! Mom encouraged my “construction” attempt to build a “pigeon”-coup; I secured a truck camper-shell some guy wanted to discard; the void at the bottom I filled with old-bricks from Grandma and my birds enjoyed a pleasant cage.
While Dad taught me “How” to hunt and fish, the responsibility of weapons and the appreciation and respect of Mother Nature, Mom bar-b-qued a gourmet-feast at the outdoor fire pit on a bed of oak and hickory coals resultant of a well-laid fire Dad had built at ole Fox Lake.
That same 5-acre mirrored lake where years later I romance-read poetry-rhyme to sweetheart Lovely-Lady Candice Leah, so very much sacred-Blessed with the same attributes of Mom! (And---Oh! Yeah!...I did allow fair-damsel to “row”…Always…a “Gentleman”?) P.S.-It worked!
Fair! & Just! Mom forever insisted on these qualities. Kind! Christian-Generous! to-a-fault!
They say that boys marry girls like their mothers---Thank God!...I am exceedingly so Blessed!
At holy-mass as I contemplated the priesthood (Wow!?) I would concentrate on the Honor-statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother-of-Jesus, and in her lovely face---see…Mom! Amen!
Thanks! Mom! For all-of-it---and, more…for life-Love important-lessons exemplar-taught.
 
Mother!
(a Loving-limerick)
 
Pray I might be a parent Good as holy-Thee
Embrace-the-adventure! Cherish-serendipity
Mentored-Truth absent Worry & Fear emotion
Exemplar: Fear-not! & Follow-Me! Devotion!
Salute! God! Mother! Freedom!-born-of-Liberty!
Amen!
 
Happy Mother’s Day! (Today & everyday!)
Love, Carl Edward

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