I'm up at the crack of dawn this morning. I am grateful I am able to stand and drink in the beautiful place where I live, from the inside out. I breathe in G-d and breathe out fear, and pain, self-doubt and non-acceptance. And I feel myself as a part of. I'm connected to the earth and the sky. I hold the gifts of wonder and wisdom.
I am a woman, a daughter, a child, a mother, a lover, and a friend.
And I am powerless over all of these things: they are the gifts with which I entered this life.
I'm grateful for qualities such as nurturing, and patience. The former I believe I always had, the latter I have worked hard to improve. In different times and places in life these have kept me alive, and allowed me to hold others in my arms, and help them breathe too. The canvas that holds the colors of this landscape include me as well. And I am grateful for the connectedness that is my life today, one day at a time.
Today I wish you all a Happy Mother's Day, those of you who are mothers, and all of your mothers too, whether they still grace this life, or have moved on. To those of you who have children, or pets, or the just the capacity to love, because our DNA enables us to reach out. We are all custodians of this world. As women, we are all mothers of one sort or another.
Today I am grateful to know the fragility and preciousness of life, to embrace the holding of a tiny hand, or a frail one, and all that fall in between.
It is the embrace that has the most meaning, as I share my heart with yours: all the hopes and dreams of a lifetime are found in that simple reaching out to one another.
Happy Mother's Day, today and every day.
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