Mother's Day

I am a Facebooker. And over the last few days, many of my friends have "challenged" each other to post a picture of our Mothers in honor of Mother's Day. I have mixed feelings on these many requests.

It has been 8 years since I last was able to celebrate with her and she departed this world for the next, and I still miss her.

This will be my dear wife's first Mother's Day without her Mother.

I also recall a conversation with a friend who lost her adult son just a few weeks before Mother's Day.

I have two wonderful children, wonderful step-children to my wife who loves them as her own. We twice lost additional children to miscarriages.

I am grateful for my Mother and my Mother-in-law, and we celebrate and honor our Moms and the children that made the women we love "moms".

But the weekend won't be the same for the two of us, nor for many other children and mothers.

God bless us and renew us.