Mother:

A poster in the window of a flower shop reads: Mother: First friend, best friend, forever friend.

How true that is. There may not be a lot of communication while the baby is still in its mother’s womb.

But after the pain and suffering of giving birth, a big smile crosses that mother’s face when someone hands her her newborn baby to hold. Not only has a baby been born. A new relationship has been born. That mother will nurture that child day and night. She will be with the child when it goes to its first day of kindergarten or Pre-K. She will proudly attend every graduation, from kindergarten through elementary, high school and college.

Once that child is grown and on its own, she will continue to support her grown child and support the child in whatever occupation the child chooses. If her child attains great success, she will take great pride in that child’s success. She will use terms like, “My son, the lawyer,” or “My son, the doctor,” etc. Or “My daughter, the pediatrician,” or my daughter, “the school teacher.” And, if that child is not a success, she will be proud of him and love him anyway.

Someone once said that a mother can have a son who becomes one of the worst criminals anywhere. He can steal, rob and kill and even be placed in an electric chair. And still, that mother will visit his grave and water his grave with her tears as often as she can in loving memory of her son.

Most friendships are conditional. People will love those who are at least close to being on their own social level. They will love people who will help them in their time of need. They have a tendency to make friends among those who are the same race, same religion and with the same political beliefs.

Few of us have more than a few friends who are friends for life. Most of our friends come and go. Proverbs 28:24 says, “There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.”
In many cases, that friend who sticks with us through thick and theirs turns out to be no other than our mother.

Someone said, “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”

Probably no one knows us any better than our mother. She knows our faults and she knows our virtues. And we are loved by her more than by anyone else. A little boy said, “God couldn’t be everywhere. So he gave us mothers.” Not only on Mother’s Day, but every day, our mothers well deserve our honor, our respect and our praise.

Excerpts from Proverbs 31:
“Who can find a virtuous woman? her price is far above rubies.
“She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
“She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
“Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
“Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
“Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
“Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.”