... but you can't take the 'Ham out of the Lewis: What a mom is

... but you can't take the 'Ham out of the Lewis

What's going on up here anyhow?

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

What a mom is

*I love this poem and hope I can have a great relationship with my kids when they're grown up like I do now that they're small.

I love you not only for what you are,
But for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you’ve made of yourself,
But for what you are making of me.
I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

I love you for putting your hand into my heaped-up heart
And passing over all the foolish and frivolous and weak things
Which you cannot help dimly seeing there
And for drawing out into the light
All the beautiful, radiant belongings
That no one else had looked quite far enough to find.

I love you for ignoring the possibilities of
The fool and weakling in me
And for laying firm hold on the possibilities of good in me.
I love you for closing your eyes to the discord in me
And for adding to the music in me by listening.

I love you because you have done more than any creed could have done to make me good
And more than any fate could have done to make me happy.
You have done it just by being yourself.

Perhaps that is what being a mom means after all.

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