Thoughts on Motherhood
WHAT T.J. DREW
A weary mother returned from the store,
Lugging groceries through the kitchen door.
Awaiting her arrival was her 8 year old son,
Anxious to relate what his younger brother had done.
"While I was out playing and Dad was on a call,
T.J. took his crayons and wrote on the wall!
It's on the new paper you just hung in the den.
I told him you'd be mad at having to do it again."
She let out a moan and furrowed her brow,
"Where is your little brother right now?"
She emptied her arms and with a purposeful stride,
She marched to his closet where he had gone to hide.
She called his full name as she entered his room.
He trembled with fear--he knew that meant doom!
For the next ten minutes, she ranted and raved
About the expensive wallpaper and how she had saved.
Lamenting all the work it would take to repair,
She condemned his actions and total lack of care.
The more she scolded, the madder she got,
Then stomped from his room, totally distraught!
She headed for the den to confirm her fears.
When she saw the wall, her eyes flooded with tears.
The message she read pierced her soul with a dart.
It said, "I love Mommy," surrounded by a heart.
Well, the wallpaper remained, just as she found it,
With an empty picture frame hung to surround it.
A reminder to her, and indeed to all,
Take time to read the handwriting on the wall.
-- Author Unknown
Was there ever a name that lived like this?
Will there ever be such another?
The angels of heaven have reared a shrine
To the holy name of "mother".
Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.
-Jane Taylor
A mother's love - how sweet the name!
What is a mother's love?
A noble, pure and tender flame,
Enkindled from above,
To bless a heart of eartly mold;
The warmest love that can grow cold, -
This is a mother's love.
- James Montgomery
Men are what their mothers make them
- Emerson
(I do think God can overcome our faults in raising our children but this quote certainly helps you realize our importance as mothers)
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Thoughts on Children
A Living Poem
Ah! what would the world be to us,
If the children were no more?
We should dread the desert behind us
Worse than the dark before.
For what are all our contrivings,
And the wisdom of our books,
When compared with your caresses,
And the gladness of your looks?
Ye are better than all the ballads
That ever were sung or said,
For ye are living poems,
And allt he rest are dead.
- Henry W. Longfellow
Children are magnets, drawing age back to youth again.
"What are you good for, my brave little man?
Answer that question for me, if you can."
Over the carpet the dear little feet
Come with a patter to climb on my seat;
Two merry eyes, full of frolic and glee,
Under their lashes looked up unto me;
Two little hands pressing soft on my face,
Drew me down close in loving embrace,
Two rosy lips gave the answer so true,
"Good to love you, mamma, - good to love you."
- Emily Huntingon Miller
He who helps a child helps humanity with a distinctness, with an immediateness, which no other help, given to human creatures in any other stage of their human life, can possibly give again.
- Phillips Brooks
Children have more need of models than of critics.
- Joseph Joubert
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Thoughts about character
Character is what a man is - the sum total of himself.
- Cortland Meyers
A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.
-Addison
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt till they are too strong to be broken.
- Johnson
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath
- James 1:19
It is better to hald back a truth than to speak it ungraciously.
- St. Francis de Sales
Nothing is politically right that is morally wrong.
-O'Connor
Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back and vigor in the body.
-Benjamin Franklin
'Tis only lovely thoughts can make a lovely face.
-Gertrude Cannon
An undutiful dughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
(it is, in my humble opinion, important to teach both boys and girls to be dutiful so they will be dutiful in their roles as either a husband or a wife)
