An excellent question...

In a recent letter to me, my mother asked me what kinds of things I wrote on my blog, while also in that wonderful motherly way, reminding me that blogs can be read by alot of people. I think she asked an excellent question. I answered that recently it had been mostly about my new dog Kipper. However, tonight I think the space rightfully belongs to my mother since Mother's Day is fast approaching.

My mother is a wonderful person. She has always been strong in spirit and determination. This was keenly seen as she fought hard to recoupe after a severe knee injury/replacement 2 years ago. As a result, she is now mobile, though slower, but able to walk unassisted and to do what she needs to do. Many times during those hard weeks, I would "melt" emotionally but somehow she managed to encourage me.

Mom loves the Lord. Her walk with her Savior is genuine, growing, and affects her everyday life. She strives to serve Him with her spiritual gifts and with her abilities. When her faith is tested or she struggles, she only clings tighter to the One in whose hand she rests. Again, she is such an encouragement to me. I know faith is real when I see how Mom lives out hers.

Mom is creative. She can turn dry, dusty "facts and figures" into learning experiences filled with all kinds of things to see and do. She can make Scripture passages come alive as she teaches. She can create fun with little or no "props". One of my fondest childhood memories is of her typing "gibberish" on a typewriter and then "reading" that aloud to my sister and I. We all would laugh until we couldn't breathe! (move over Victor Borga!!). She was able to turn ordinary things into wonderful play times for us (like playing hide-n-seek) in our closets!!

Mom is getting older now, but in my eyes she is growing even more special. Her long, handwritten letters are treasures to read, filled with the ordinary events of their lives and other things that make me feel that I am at home when I read them. Her words of advice come laden with years of experience and a deep desire to see her daughters have the "abundant life" God wants to give his children. Her movements are slower, but her heart still leaps at news from family members, when personal mail arrives in the mailbox or when the Lord teaches her something new from His word. Mom's spirit is still young!!

Mom. I hope alot of people do read this blog because I want everyone to know that you mean so much to me. I love you so very much and am so blessed to have you as my mother. I hope that I tell you this more than just on a special holiday. Thanks for helping to make me into the person I am today. Thank you for loving my dad and my sister and me in such sacrificial, creative, tangible and intangible ways. I hope this Mother's Day is very special for you.

Thank you Lord for my mother.