Dear Mom,

Mother’s Day is just around the corner so I was thinking about you. I started thinking, I love you but why? So I began pondering over the course of my life and the things that you have done. There are so many things that I can point to. For example, now that I have my own children I realize what you did before I can even remember, the countless nights awake feeding me and cleaning up from my various messes. And then I was able to walk and run, you were always there tending to my wounds and watching out for the dangers that I didn’t even know existed. Next I went off to school, everyday making me a lunch, giving me what I needed to grow physically. Every night reading to me from the “Keys for Kids” book and the Bible, giving me what I needed to grow Spiritually. You would pray for me, that I would love Jesus. And then came puberty, oh the dreaded and never forgotten years of puberty. What I wouldn’t give to erase that from my brain. Yet you were there, loving me with an endless and unconditional love that I had no understanding of. Thank you, Mom.

I appreciate all of these things for they have shaped me and molded me more that anything else in my life. But I began to realize the thing that I received from you that I didn’t even know was there. You shared the love of Jesus. You gave up your time, your resources, and your energy for me because you love me. Just as Jesus gave up His time, His resources, and His energy, even His very life for me because He loves me. Just as Jesus poured His life out on the cross for me you have poured out your life too, for me, because you love me. This love comes from you, not because of anything that I have done but because I am your son. In fact this love that you have for me didn’t cease even when my words and actions said that “I hate you and want you out of my life”. Jesus’ love comes to me not because of anything that I have done to deserve it but because I am His creation. In fact this love that He has for me didn’t cease even when my words and actions said that “I hate you and want you out of my life”. I realized now that I love you only because you have loved me.

You have shown me a divine love that only comes from Jesus. Without you I don’t think that I could understand the love of Jesus and what He did that day on the cross. You have given me a personal experience of the love that Jesus has for each one of us. This is the greatest thing that you have done for me and I hope that I can give this love to my children too.

I Love You Mom.