Pre-Mother's Day Posting

Possibility of no internet access tomorrow, so I wanted to get this in.....

Mother

Last night I dreamt that you were gone.

It was only for a day, but you were really gone,

Not just for a little while.

We tried to mourn for you,

But we weren’t ready yet, still shocked,

Hoping it wasn’t real.

I shed tears and felt pain deep inside.

But most of all I felt all alone.

My soul lost, undefined.

No one knows my soul like you do.

Too much of me reminds me of you.

How can I be myself without you?

If you’re gone is the part of you that’s in me gone too?

The next day you came back,

And I begged you never to go again.

You told me you would have to go one day,

But you said that part of you would always be in me, and me in you.

You said I’d have to keep being me even if you were gone,

So someone else can have a part of both of us.

Ruth 1
¹⁶ But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. ¹⁷ Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me."

Proverbs 31

²⁰She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy.

²⁵She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.

²⁶She speaks with wisdom and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

²⁸Her children arise and call her blessed.

³¹Give her the reward she has earned and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.