" My Mother, A Living Reflection of Who I Am Today..."

I have been posting pictures lately without elaborate long captions. This picture of me and my mom doesn't need wordy description, either. What you see emanates from within...the sentiments are heart-warming.

My life is decorated and painted with so much love & admiration for my mom. She just turned 78 a few days ago. She may have difficulty hearing now but her spiritual ears are of radar frequency. I always have fun whenever we're out together eating at KFC, to the stores and let's not forget praising & praying together to our Almighty God at church every Sunday morning.

I thank God every morning for my mom. She is a prayer warrior. She is a delightful tither. She literally gives 10% off  her income to tithes & offering. I do dig that from her. She's the cornerstone of our family, the catalyst of how and why family solidarity" has kept me on my toes..." so does with the rest of my 7 siblings.

I'm in a good place at heart because of my mom. Like her, I breathe on the stewardship that God has given me as a mother to my two sons. They're the love of my life. They're worth the sacrifice for staying strong as a single mom. My mother has continually shown me that being a mother is a lifetime work not a job. It doesn't matter how old your children are my mother said; they will always be the pure blessings from the inside out...regardless what they become.

 Nurture what is true & important, that is, God's saving grace to your child/children's life. Not knowing His redemptive plan ensues more than a heartache. As good mothers, we continue to rise and pray and hope in faith that they're "covered by the blood of Jesus." Only then, we can be at peace with ourselves through "Him that is greater in us than he that is in the world." And  when we know that our children are in covenant with the Lord, there is nothing greater than knowing they're saved by the grace of God. That's my incessant prayer...

Life is not really that short as the adage puts it... We causally shorten it by honoring the borders of unhealthy diet; many people smoking & drinking excessively. Some of us don't know which battles to pick & fight. Ironically, if only we have followed our God-given intuition, instinct or gut feelings when making life-choices, we would't be in a rut or in a deep hole for so long.Thus, this is how we make our life short--inviting toxic people in our lives and  thoughtlessly caving-in to instant gratification and not setting boundaries. We're forgetting that integrity, chastity, and honesty still play an integral part of our life. And that is good if we could keep it that way. Through it all, my mom has been and will always be there for me. Petite as she is, her heart astounds me.

  Thank God, my mom, for all I know, has always been fierce in discerning what's good for us. And she goes for it without anybody else's permission, but the Lord...

And I love my mom. She still puts me in check--not that I'm opinionated but just a little gullible, perhaps.

Happy, Blessed Mother's Day