Why Is Mother's Day A Big Deal

We do not celebrate Mother's Day because Mothers are perfect. None of us had a perfect mother because there are no perfect people. But, as a major component of the world's population, mothers are, without doubt, nearer perfection than any of the other segments of humanity, except maybe, the new born babies they have produced. We celebrate Mother's Day because our mothers conceived us and carried us for nine months of inconvenience, weariness, sacrifice, and then went into the valley of the shadow of death to give us birth. That alone is good reason to honor and love our mothers, but most mothers went much, much further. Most mothers spent the next twenty years or so feeding us, washing our dirty clothes and cleaning up our daily messes in her house... with little or no help from us. Now that kind of commitment and love is deserving of far more than a once a year "Happy Mother's Day Mom", which isn't so happy for most mothers who have to still do all the work of cooking, cleaning the table and kitchen besides the extra messes everybody makes while celebrating her.

My mother, and my wife, Bettie fit the description and lived up to all their motherly obligations with little help and few complaints. Now, Bettie and I are in our late 80's and barely able to care for ourselves. I wore myself out and I and our six children wore her out. For that, Honey, I am truly sorry.

  

Many of you know that Bettie recently had a serious problem with her heart and vertigo, complicated by some other health problems, and was in the hospital/rehab 18 days for a pace-maker implant. She has been home now for about five weeks. Her nurse and the rehab lady come regularly and we have two other ladies clean house for us every two weeks. I have been playing cook. Breakfast is easy and frozen dinners are easier. Bettie did breakfast for the first time this morning and is recuperating very well. So tomorrow is Mother's Day and I come to you, precious Bettie, and all you other mothers out there to offer you a "never appreciated enough" Happy Mother's Day.  

Bettie (Bunnie) and I will celebrate our 68th Anniversary May 31. When God hands out the report cards, precious little wife, you will get a great big sun-shinny ... smiley face.  And we will live eternally healthy, happy and holy with our six children, most of their descents I pray, and thousands of friends, but best of all, with our Lord and Savior and Heavenly Father. Praise God.