08-5-2009 - A Mother's Love....Happy Mother's Day

My mood while writing this blog: Happy

Happy Mother's Day!!

One calm, bright, sweet, sunshiny day, an angel stole out of heaven and came down to this old world, and roamed field and forest, city and hamlet. Just as the sun went down he spread his wings and said: “ Now my visit is over, and I must go back to the world of light. But before I go, I must gather some mementos of my visit here.”

He looked into a beautiful flower garden and said, “How lovely and fragrant these flowers are.” He plucked the rarest roses and made a bouquet and said, “I see nothing more beautiful and fragrant than these; I will take them with me.”

But he looked a little further and saw a bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked baby, smiling into it's mother's face. And he said “Oh, that baby's smile is prettier than this bouquet; I will take that too.”

Then he looked just beyond the cradle and there was a mother's love pouring out like a gush of a river toward the river and the baby. And he said, “Oh, that mother's love is the prettiest thing I have seen on earth; I will carry that too.”

With the three treasures he winged his way back to the pearly gates, and lit just on the outside and said, “Before I go in, I will examine my mementos.” And he looked at the flowers and they had withered. He looked at the baby's smile and it had faded. He looked at the mother's love and there it was, in all its pristine beauty.

He threw aside the withered flowers and the faded smile, and winged his way through the gates and led all the host of heaven together and said, “Here is the only thing I found on earth that would keep it's beauty all the way to heaven – it is a mother's love.”