For Mother, Sweet and Kind

Between the bustle of keeping up with 

wife-mother-grandma-and childcare-giver duties/beauties

I often find myself drawing from a wellspring 

rich with sound teaching from my mother. 

Today my mom turns 79!

So thankful for my sweet and gentle mother💖

The green pastures of childhood soon turn gold with echo-song

While we reap the rewards of a kind mother all life long

How often we remember in the thick of living’s care

The memories of childhood and a loving mother there

Now often as we look back on fond scenes grown soft and dim

We thank God for the gift of a mother who honored Him

For as a child we could not see what the years strew behind

The precious, priceless memories of mother, sweet and kind

How swift the carousel of seasons spins and spills and twirls

And soon its eager children are no longer boys and girls

But men and women, moms and dads, so thankful to recall

Their precious, loving, faithful, gentle best-mother-of-all

...it doesn’t sound like much to tell it; how moms undo days

Cook-clean-laundry-scolding-holding-praying-playing-haze

With admonition for the wrong and kind praise for the right

We pray we too will leave behind a gentle guiding light

© Janet Martin