Wednesday, May 8, 2024

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  Happy Easter!  Sunday is Mother’s Day and an opportunity for us to celebrate our moms.  My mom turned 80 this year.  Mom and Dad are celebrating their 60^th anniversary this year.  And I have been blessed to have a fabulous mom for 56 years.  As I sit here and think through things Mom has done for me, as well as my sisters and brother, there are just too many to count.  One memory leads to the next, which brought to mind one of my favorite memories, although I don’t think I’ve ever told Mom this.  After completing my initial Air Force trainings, I had the opportunity to come home for a visit, pack up some of my items, and drive my car to my permanent duty station 18 hours way.  Mom volunteered to make that drive with me and then fly back home.  That was the first time I made a road trip like that.  We talked.  We sang.  We saw things we’d never seen before.  We ate at a little diner, in what seemed to be in the middle to nowhere. 

Those seem like pretty normal things, so what made this memory so special? 

It was the one-on-one time with Mom.  It was Mom looking out for me and wanting to make sure I got to my destination safely.  It was Mom, just being Mom, which gave me a sense of comfort and peace as I said good bye to my childhood and headed into the unknow adult life that was awaiting me.  To put it in one word, it was Mom’s love that made that road trip and the memory of it, so special to me.

Love is sacrificially choosing the good of someone else over self.  In one word, Mom is love.  Thank you Mom!

To this day, road trips are one of my favorite things to do and I think it all stems from that first road trip with Mom.

Bless others and be blessed.

Shelly  :0)

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