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Ain’t Got No Mama! |
She viewed me coming down the aisle to pick up my repaired
hearing aid. “Come into my office,” said
my friend, the middle aged, Hearing Specialist.
I noticed she was fidgeting with a lonely button and a
sewing kit, as she explained. “I just
purchased this sweater vest, and a minute ago one of the buttons fell off. I can’t get one of the needles threaded to
fix it.”
Restlessly she opened the sewing kit and moved about the
many needles inside a small box. Almost
frantically she said, “Is this the needle threader? I can’t make it work.”
As I reached out to select a needle, she handed me the
threading gadget.
Carefully, I inserted the threader into the eye of the
needle, and showed her how to pass the thread through and then gently pull it
into the needle.
Quickly I picked up the button and proceeded to reattach it
to her sweater.
“You need your mama,” I said to her.
Her response surprised me when she replied; “Hazel I never
had a mama. My birth mother did not want
me or my sister, so my grandma raised us our early years, and she was mean to
us. Later I went to live with my dad,
and my step mother was uncaring and hateful to me.”
I answered, “So you did not have a mother figure to be a
good role model and to show you love?”
She replied, “That is true.”
I told her, “Well, I love you,” as I reached out and gave
her a hug, and she hugged back.
As she handed me my package, she said, “Those three women
really missed out, because I have gone on to make something of myself, and I am
also proud of my adult children.”
In life not all children are fortunate to have a good
relationship with their mother, (or their father) even those still living at
home.
I think back at the many times I failed as a mother to be
patient and kind to my own children.
Today, I am thankful that my children have forgiven me.
Jesus gave explicit instructions about children and those
who abuse and harm the little ones. He
said, “It would be better that a millstone was hanged around their neck and
they were cast into the sea.”
Now that seems a bit harsh, but Jesus did not take kindly to
the mistreatment of children.
Paul instructed Fathers not to tease and aggravate their
children and cause them to be angry.
Ephesians 6:4
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up
in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
I am reminded that Paul also said children were to obey and
honor their parents, and give them respect.
How is everything at your home this day?
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5 comments:
Hi Aunt Hazel, I am grateful for you. I always look for to join you and reading your true stories.
I always as the Lord to grant me a heart of compassion towards my daughter and other kids in ministry.
Thanks for the linkup today.
Hi Aunt Hazel, I am grateful for you. I always look for to join you and reading your true stories.
I always as the Lord to grant me a heart of compassion towards my daughter and other kids in ministry.
Thanks for the linkup today.
It is so true, Hazel. Some days children can try every ounce of our patience. May our God help us to be loving and patient. And I am so grateful for His grace which has covered the many days I fell short. Blessings!
Hazel, I'm so glad you gave that girl some of your love. It sounds like she needed to be reassured that she was loved and worthwhile.
Yes, I, too, have failed my children at times--too often. I just hope they know how much I love them.
Janis
This one really grabbed my heart. It's really the little things that sometimes show the biggest part of who we are. So glad that you're heart is full of the Love of our Father. I also appreciate your humility, Hazel. I too see my many failings as a parent, but never cease in trying and praying. Thanks again for your example and wisdom.
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