Moms are amazing people. While the dads excel at providing, protecting, securing and disciplining with all the strength of Mr. Incredible, we all know that moms have some pretty amazing superpowers of their own. For instance, does your Mom have eyes in the back of her head too? Is she able to multi-task 15 different things in a single hour? Can your mom put together the best tasting meal you've ever had with 3 cans of something and some seasonings? Can she nurse you back to health with a cracker, some 7-up and a kiss on the forehead? Is she able to ask just the question you didn't want her to ask only to find out later, she already knew the answer? My mom was able to call me home from 3 blocks away with the power of this incredibly loud, built-in whistle. I think my mom's best superpower was telling me, and therefore making me believe that I could do anything I set my mind to through Christ who gives me strength.
All throughout history, we have examples of how some Super Mom's produced some amazing people. Abraham Lincoln's mom taught him to read and made sure that he had good books to read, no matter the sacrifice. He said, "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my Mother." Thomas Edison, whose mother died when he was very young said this: "If it had not been for her appreciation and her faith in me at a critical time in my experience, I should never likely have become an inventor....her firmness, her sweetness, her goodness were potent powers to keep me on the right path. My mother was the making of me." And the Statue of Liberty, our country's model of freedom was actually a model of the sculptor's mother, because she represented a heroic and influential person in his life. Moms have amazing superpower in the life of the ones God gives them.
Happy Mother's Day to all of my Mommy friends around the world!
