| | | | Four Mothers - Four Stories |
By Glenn A. Hascall
One will sit in a nursing home and look out the window imagining times long past when she would stand guardian over children long since grown. She may lament the passing time, but she still hold out hope that one of her children now busy with lives that are far too busy for a visit might yet find time.
Another sits at a desk paying close attention to the clock. As a single mom she would love to be home with her children, but there are bills to pay and she's all her children have - so she works and occasionally feel guilty because time is passing too fast and there is too much demanding her attention. Some nights she weeps when she's confronting real life.
She sits at home holding out hope that her daughter will come home. Normally a compliant child, the girl has decided that mom doesn't really know everything, so she is trying to make her own rules and she's failing miserably, but the girl isn't ready to admit failure. The mother waits cries and sometimes prays.
The door is the only thing that separates her from her new son. She and her husband have tried for years to have a child, now word has come that their soon to be adopted son has been born. She's nervous as she tentatively opens the door and hears the robust cry of the one she's named Daniel. A young woman vacillates between tears and smiles as she passes the boy she carried to his new families. It's a day two mothers will never forget.
Four stories - each different than the last and none seem remotely connected to the other except for the fact that they each involve mothers.
The truth is, there are no true postcard mothers. Each will have moments of pain, triumph and bad hair days. They may not be perfect and you may be privy to certain flaws they are adept at hiding from most. Yet in the recollection of motherhood there are those moments when you recall certain memories with great fondness. There may also be moments when you can't feel happy with the memory, but each memory allows you to gain a clear picture of who your mother was and the mother you could become by taking the best of what you know and avoiding the worst you have experienced.
Each mother started out a scared woman who wondered how they could possibly manage the care of a child. After all, none of us came with an instruction manual.
So, for Mother's Day, take all the human qualities of your mother and apply a liberal application of forgiveness - then celebrate the specific moments that make you proud of your mother. She'd love to hear from you and would be tickled to see you. Maybe it's been too long.
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