ABOUT MOTHER'S DAY

Mother's Day isn't the best day for some. Those who want children and can't have them struggle to get past this day. They need our prayers. Those whose mothers' actions ruined a family (some addicted -- some not) also need our prayers.

Whether a birth mother or one by adoption, Mother's Day is a time of honoring the bond between mother and child. I thank God for my own mother RIP, my children, and the blessings they've been in my life.

I saved a poem written by my daughter when she was six years old. It was a school project and she spent a lot of time on it. When she married a few years ago, I framed a copy and gave it to her new husband with the admonition to take care of her. Here it is:

I've gone through teething and learning to talk

Drinking from bottles and learning to walk

From bumps in the night to runny noses

From afraid of the dark to frozen toses.

Through trips to the doctor and the dentist too;

Through eating fried okra and having to chew

From being sad and happy, joyful and blue;

Who's always by my side? Mother, it's you

Laura Davis, Age Six