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Since today is Mother’s Day, I wanted to throw out these thought and suggestions for anyone with a mother? In other words, everyone.
To often with holidays, the media and businesses seek ways to make money off of these special days. In an economy that is seriously leaning towards a recession, ridiculous gas prices, people losing their jobs and homes we have to watch how we spend our money.
Regardless of how close or distant your relationship is with your mother or the woman who holds that title in your life, take time to let her know that you love and/or appreciate her.
Sometimes that’s all it takes.
If your relationship is not as it should be with your mother for whatever reason, just try to forgive her. Do it for you. You do not want to carry this burden another day and risk the possibility of one of you dying without resolving these issues. There are some women that shouldn’t be mothers and you can tell by their disfunction as one. Some things are probably impossible to turn back, but again I ask you to do it for yourself.
Free yourself and as a result of this action you may free others.
Ask yourself this question. By holding resentment in my heart for what my mother or I have done to each other, is it worth me standing in judgment for and possibly face eternal damnation? Probably not.
Forgive and let it go. It doesn’t mean that you have to be best friends. Sometimes she doesn’t know how to effectively communicate with you for various unspoken reasons. Initiate the line of communication and be creative. Your gift of time and forgiveness holds more value than any material item you can buy.
Now if your have a good relationship with your mother, wonderful. Let her know how much you appreciate and love her. If you’re able or have the means, spend time with her. Your gift of time is more valuable than any material item you can give her.
If your mother is no longer with you on this side of eternity, please take the time to thank God for your life and the time you had with her. Her memory never leaves you. In honor of your mother, spend time or send a loving or appreciative message to a woman who is like a mother to you. It may be a Great-Aunt or an older cousin or even the nice lady you see every now and then. Your time, admiration and acknowledgment is worth more than any material thing you can buy.
The bottom line is that time and forgiveness doesn’t cost anything but a willing heart and the courage to act.
Finally, I want to wish my mother, wife, sister, mother-in-law, aunts and female friends who are mothers a very Happy Mother’s Day. I Love You All.
Tim
Approximately a month now I have been talking with my 3 year old son about going to see the movie “Speed Racer” when it comes out on May 9th. I talked about how when I was his age back in the mid-70’s I would stop whatever I was doing and run to the TV to watch Speed Racer. I even imitate the sound of the Mach 5 when it jumped. (Sigh – I loved that show.)
Anyway, each day we would see the commercial I would tell him that we was going to go and see the movie.
As May 9th drew closer I hyped it up even more with my son as if I was one of the movies sponsors. I felt that this was more of a father & son movie than a family movie. And was I correct. When we walked into the movie theater we only saw one woman with her son the rest were fathers that looked to be like myself in their mid-30s with their young sons.
We got a good seat and was getting settled to watch the movie, then my son said, “I have to potty”. I’m looking at him thinking, “Son we got a good seat and the movie is about to start, can it wait”, but I quickly gathered our stuff and rushed him to the restroom and rushed back. After about an hour into the movie he whispered to me again, “Daddy I got to go”. I looked at him a bit frustrated and said, “Dude, they’re about to reveal who Racer X is? Can you wait a minute?” He was kind enough to wait exactly a minute, enough time for me to see if Racer X is really his brother Rex or not. I’ve been waiting to know this since the 1st grade. So we rushed out and repeated the same routine as we did a hour ago.
By this time I knew it was nearing the end of the movie. Speed made it through the cross-country race and finally got the invitation to race in the Grand Prix. I leaned over to my son and said, “this is going to be cool”. He replied and said, “Yeah I know”.
Then the race began. Now for a moment, we were the same age. The difference was that he was more interested in the action parts of the movie (how fast the cars were going, the fighting & shooting scenes and the race). I was more interested in the actually story of the movie. I knew what was going to happen in the race.
Anyway, I won’t give it away. I thought it was a good movie. I will absolutely purchase the DVD when it comes out so we can share that moment again and again. I admit that it’s probably geared more towards the boys who watched the cartoon back in the 70’s who are not father’s of young sons of their own.
I know tomorrow is Mother’s Day, but today was Father’s Day for me.
