The Pecan Park Eagle

Here’s my dad wishing my mom a Happy Mother’s Day in 1993. They were both gone by July 1994. Mom died in early June, four days after their 58th anniversary. Dad, who had been in good health, died exactly five weeks later.

Happy Mother’s Day, Mom, wherever your happy soul resides in Heaven’s broad cloudscape. We still love you, even though you are no longer with us, and we still feel the presence of your love in everything right that we take on to do.

You taught us that “God is Love”. So be it. You were right, as were you correct about all the other lessons of pure love’s true nature: All love that is giving, that is right, that is building life for the better – is God’s Love.

It took us awhile, but we got it. – Mother’s Love is God’s Love too. All caring for others and the world around us is God’s Love. And once it reaches our hearts, it stays with us forever.

God’s Love is True Love too. Any kind of notion that True Love is about having a partner that makes us feel good all the time is not Love, at all, but lust. Easy way to recall the difference: Love frees. Lust owns.

Thank you, Mom, for freeing me to live. I’m not perfect, but I give life my best.

Because of you.

Happy Mother’s Day!