I need your help today.
I want to care
for those you've sent into my life,
to help them develop the special gifts
you've given them. But I also want to free them
to follow their own paths
and to bring their loving wisdom
to the world.
Help me
to embrace them without clutching,
to support them without suffocating,
to correct them without crushing.
And help me
to live joyfully and playfully, myself,
so they can see your life in me
and find their way to you.
Amen.
A
mother's gift is to give life. But in the daily demands of feeding and
forming, cleaning and cautioning, tending and teaching, her gift can
get lost in the layers.
She
needs to remember that her work begins with herself. To be attentive to
others, she must listen to her own heart. To care for others, she must
take time for herself. To teach self-love to others, she must act
lovingly towards her own body and her time.
If
she finds her own sparks, she will fan them in those around her. If she
frees her own spirit, she will help others soar. If she focuses each
moment by being wholly present, she will point the way to holiness and
to God.
And
if she truly lives, she will give real life to the world, not only in
her children's bodies, but in their souls.
I want to care
for those you've sent into my life,
to help them develop the special gifts
you've given them. But I also want to free them
to follow their own paths
and to bring their loving wisdom
to the world.
Help me
to embrace them without clutching,
to support them without suffocating,
to correct them without crushing.
And help me
to live joyfully and playfully, myself,
so they can see your life in me
and find their way to you.
Amen.
A
mother's gift is to give life. But in the daily demands of feeding and
forming, cleaning and cautioning, tending and teaching, her gift can
get lost in the layers.
She
needs to remember that her work begins with herself. To be attentive to
others, she must listen to her own heart. To care for others, she must
take time for herself. To teach self-love to others, she must act
lovingly towards her own body and her time.
If
she finds her own sparks, she will fan them in those around her. If she
frees her own spirit, she will help others soar. If she focuses each
moment by being wholly present, she will point the way to holiness and
to God.
And
if she truly lives, she will give real life to the world, not only in
her children's bodies, but in their souls.