A Mother Is Forever

Quote by Laura Ingalls Wilder

She cups within Her bearing

Life’s loveliest of charms

Birthed in the gentle caring

Of babies in her arms

She learns sacred thanksgiving

Love’s stunning bittersweet

Taught in the course of living

By children at her feet

Her prayers could fill an ocean

A deep, unscripted cry

That God will watch her children

As they learn how to fly

She grafts to precious laughter

A trove of tender tears

Knowing how soon the After

Seals childhood’s precious years

Therefore, she serves with honor

Her call to Motherhood

A crown God placed upon her

And uttered, ‘it is good’

This hardest undertaking

Of discipline and grace

Rewards her when her children

Arise and call her Blessed

She knows heartstrings won’t sever

Wherever they may be

A mother is forever

Her love, eternity

© Janet Martin

She looks well to the ways of her household, And does not eat the bread of idleness.
Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her;

Prov.31:27-28