A mother is an Amazing woman with a heart of gold. She carries her child or children in her heart from when they are in the womb until her dying day
A mother has a heart full of love, care, concern and affection for her children. These children are sometimes biological but at other times they are adopted. Elizabeth Stones said ‘Making the decision to have a child – it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.’
The world is full of women who have done amazingly as mothers.
In today’s episode, I’ll love to look at the life of Nancy Edison, the mother of Thomas Edison. She was an amazing mother who refused to give up on her son even though his school teacher had said he was mentally ill or incompetent.
Nancy Edison, a thriving mother indeed, believed in her son. She home-schooled him until his greatness and potential came out to the limelight.
Thomas had this to say about his mother.
‘My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me and I felt I had something to live for someone I must not disappoint.’
One of the virtues we must cultivate is the virtue of an Amazing heart, full of love and affection for our children.
As we water them with such love and affection, they will bloom and blossom and make the world a better place to live in.
Mothers are Beautiful and firm Believers in the destiny of their children.
That belief is what made Nancy Edison go through the pain of raising a child who the regular school walls had given up on.
A mother believes in her child. She believes that there is a future for her child and she goes ahead to prepare her child for that future.
Mothers can go hungry so that the future they are seeing can become a reality. She can risk her life to preserve that destiny.
No wonder, Moses’ mother in the Bible hid him successfully for three months because he was born at a time when the Israelites were slaves in Egypt and Pharoah had decreed that all male children born to the Israelis be killed.
Jochebed, Moses’ mother hid her son for three months. When it was becoming too difficult to hide him in the house she switched to plan B- a basket on the river bank. I wonder who gave her that idea. Somehow Moses survived not only because he had a destiny but because he had a mother who believed in his destiny and was willing to pay the price to preserve him.
I want to encourage you as a thriving mother to see and believe in the destiny of your child or children. That belief will spur you to go all out in your delight-some role as a mother.
Your children too will become great and they will birth a positive revolution as Moses did.
Mothers are a Caring bunch.
What better way to explain the caring heart and attitude of a mother than the poem My mother by Ann Taylor?
My Mother
Who sat and watched my infant head
When sleeping on my cradle bed,
And tears of sweet affection shed?
My Mother.
When pain and sickness made me cry,
Who gazed upon my heavy eye,
And wept for fear that I should die?
My Mother.
Who taught my infant lips to pray
And love God’s holy book and day,
And walk in wisdom’s pleasant way?
My Mother.
And can I ever cease to be
Affectionate and kind to thee,
Who wast so very kind to me,
My Mother?
Ah, no! the thought I cannot bear,
And if God please my life to spare
I hope I shall reward thy care,
My Mother.
When thou art feeble, old and grey,
My healthy arm shall be thy stay,
And I will soothe thy pains away,
My Mother.
