This is an ode to every mother and every
mother figure,
the one who prays and
stays and struggles with us
the one who fights and forgives and faces the storms
with uncompromising calm
Th is an ode to Mom
the one who carries us in her
womb in her hands in her heart
in her we see the definition of grace
she keeps us safe keeps us fed keeps us in school in church in check
Inspired. She digs deep into the well of
her soul and finds a love that overflows
overrides overwhelms everything
and it always does
she gives the love of a thousand selfless deeds every day
she makes plaits makes clothes makes beds makes plans makes time
makes do
with what she has and she teaches us
that what we have is enough
she gives
the love of a thousand victories in the
face of loss and suffering she wins
every time because she always serves first
she knows her worth, her covering
her comforting her faith believes that
her will be is greater than her was
She gives the love of a thousand sacrifices
in the shape of our expectations and she
makes it look so easy we could hardly
see the half of what she gives more than she takes
she prays she sees she tucks
us in and we've never seen her sleep but
she dreams the dreams and plants the seeds and bears the fruit,
bears the burdens, bears all the things that we
alone can’t bear
she wears her strength
and dignity like they will never go out
of style and she smiles at the future
and the future
smiles back because it knows the good
things she'll bring when she shows up
and she always does
she brings peace and virtue with her
everywhere she goes
courage in tow she shows us that a
fearless woman is a woman who fears the Lord
she stands ashore stands up straight
stands on his promises his Providence
her hands work with willingness as she does the most good
and she always does
she is fierce and unflinching unrelenting undivided
understanding undemanding she has grace
to manage her house into a household
where she holds all the pieces together
and never breaks under the pressure
she is underestimated underpaid and
understated when she faces the
temptation to give up she simply finds a
way to give more
and she always does and
all this comes before her children are
even up for the day and when they rise
they'll say blessed is this woman who
gives so much and says so much more than
a thousand words with a single touch and
she always does she gives the love of a
thousand generations of mothers before
her mothers who bore her and raised her
and gave her the stories we will never
read in history books but when history
looks back it will see that she was the
one worth writing about because many
women have done excellently but she she
has surpassed them all
and she always does