Happy Mother’s Day
This Sunday families gather, many virtually, to celebrate our Mothers. We want to celebrate these wonderful women who gave us life, and whose lives were spent in selfless giving and loving. What we might say today with our words is important but less important than what these women have said with their lives. Their actions show us what love really looks like. Were they perfect? No, they were not, but their responses to us, their children, created a tapestry of love full of meaning and memories that influence how we live today.
“a tapestry of love full of meaning and memories that influence how we live today
There is a song sung by the Wailin’ Jennys called the “Parting Glass”. After my mother had died, my large family went back to mom’s home to be with each other. As we so often did, we started to play music filled with memories and had a very strong sense of my mother’s spirit with each of us. We started sharing stories of my mother and realised that those stories and memories will never leave us. She is still with us. So we asked my brothers and sisters who play musical instruments to play something to mom. Then we found a bottle of wine and poured a wee bit of spirit in each glass and sung this song called the “Parting Glass”. This might have been my mother's wish to each of her children. So whether our mothers are alive or gone, I ask you to lift a glass to your mothers and say thank you for so much.
-Sister Joan Atkinson, csj [re-posted]