'Child' ...In Reply To Garth Brook's Song 'Mom'

 Matt, straight out of bed this morning said, 'hey mom, I want you to hear this new awesome song from Garth Brooks!' He grinned as I listened with tears...tears of both joy and grief as I think about how many times I mess up in my 'leading them back to Him' and of joy because nothing comes close to the 'I love you Moms' uttered in countless ways...

When you came from heaven

Little girl or boy

You became the reason

For your mother’s joy

All her other dreams, child

Suddenly came true

Nothing could prepare her

For the likes of you

When you came from heaven

Suddenly her world

Took on a new meaning

In wee boy or girl

All life’s other charges

Would be reconciled

None quite as important

As her little child

Slip-and-stumble sorrow
Trip-and tumble crawls
Learning as she teaches
Reaching as she falls
Faith, fear and forgiveness
Tendering their art
Rendering joy’s fullness
Deep within her heart

When you came from heaven

Heaven came to her

Love took on new meaning

In the word Mother

And nothing could prepare her

For its sweetest sum

Just to hear her children

Say, I love you, mom

© Janet Martin

That saying is so true about a mother holding her children a short time in her arms but forever in her heart...

Dayle talks about another aspect of 'mother and child' here.

and here...

Mother said to God

I’m kinda scared

I feel so small

And unprepared

So much to teach them

As they grow

I’ve never been

A mother, you know

They'll need a lot

Of love and care

I’m gonna need

A lot of prayer

God said to mother,

What you say is true

But you’re not alone

I’ll walk with you

© Janet Martin