"Mama always said..." was intended to be the title of this blog, however, those words were already taken in the sphere of blog titles. Therefore, I was forced to change the name to something that would just as appropriately reflect my intentions, which were to honor the memory of my mother. The posed question of "Who's your mother?" certainly represents her and the times she lived in. She had no fear of the 'on the spot correction' of children or adults. Indeed, she recognized that many adults still needed the lessons. The advice she handed on was often commonsense, unless you had not heard it before. Most who know me have heard me quote her more than once.
In a time much simpler than we live in today, my mother was a teacher of children who loved her. The children she taught never doubted that she cared for them and wanted only the best for them. She would never knowingly allow harm come to one if she could do anything about it. I credit my mother in my life with many things, from my sense of empathy and compassion to my attitudes of justice and knowledge.
This most recent Mother's Day I was very pleased to host my brother and his wife for their Alaskan vacation. We were thrilled over and over again by the glory of God that was expressed in the views we had, not only of wildlife but mountains, rivers and glaciers, views that are themselves subject to God's reign of the weather. But for our mother, I considered, we may not have been together at all, much less at the right time and place to see all that we had been shown.
