{A Mother’s Letter}

To my dear daughter,

It’s the eve of Mother’s Day. For this special day, please allow me to write you a letter.

You see, you were not an easy pregnancy. Mommy had to go in and out of the hospital for the first six months. I know you have had a hard time too. And you know what, delivering you wasn’t easy either….but finally seeing you, holding you in my arms and kissing your cheeks and whispering how much I love you, that morning of March 26 – ten days early of my due date and ten days short of my birthday. That special moment between me and you, where I felt like nobody in the room but us – I could have not asked for a better birthday.

This Mother’s Day, I want to thank the Almighty for such a wonderful gift….the gift of you.

My dear Nikki, thank you….

• Thank you for making me look forward to each day with you.
• Thank you for showing me how much love I am capable of giving.
• Thank you for giving me sleepless nights just staring at you.
• Thank you for allowing me to be your first teacher.
• Thank you for revealing and causing me to deal with those fears that I didn’t know I had.
• Thank you for showing me my weaknesses and helping me discover my strengths.
• Thank you for being the sunshine in my cloudy days.
• Thank you for always asking me how my days was.
• Thank you for allowing me to leave you “love notes”.
• Thank you for sharing your secrets with me.
• Thank you for crying and laughing with me.
• Thank you for allowing me to shower you with “dry kisses”.
• Thank you for helping me to be my best self.
• Thank you for humbling me.
• Thank you for complimenting me.
• Thank you for calling out my mistakes without judging.
• Thank you for making my dream a reality.
• Thank you for giving me so much joy.
• Thank you for our Mommy and Nikki time.
• Thank you for making me realize how much God loves me.
• Thank you for the “endless thank you’s” I could say.
• Thank you for giving me the honor to be a Mom.
• Thank you for being the best daughter ever, just by being you.

Thank you for being the sweet, loving, caring you. My pride, my joy, my precious you.

I love you more than words can say.

“… I thank God for you—the God I serve with a clear conscience, just as my ancestors did. Night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers.” 2 Timothy 1:3

To you Mang, our loving and wonderful mother, thank you for your unconditional love and support, {The Love of a Mother – this is for you} – for always believing in us and helping us to be the person that we are right now.  Happy Mother’s Day! We love you!

To my dear sisters, Arlene and Desiree, Happy Mother’s Day! You both are the epitome of strength, love you both!

To you my friend, yes you… who happen to read this post, you are worth celebrating….Happy Mother’s Day!

Linking with Barbie at My Freshly Brewed Life for Fresh Brewed Sunday.

All good things,
Charina

when a child quits being a child

Deuteronomy 6:6-9 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

What makes a child quits being a child?

A child that should be full of innocence and love, specially towards another child.

What makes them hurt other children?

Last night, I was told by my daughter Nikki, that while they were having lunch together, somebody asked what would they want to be when they grow up. Everybody took turns in sharing their dreams. Nikki said, she would like to be a FBI agent or a famous singer or actress.

Then it happened, one girl laughed at her and another told Nikki, you are not going to be a FBI agent nor can never be a famous singer or actress.

Yes, it broke her heart. She said that after lunch she went to the bathroom and cried.

It broke my heart.

How can a child said something like that?

How can they hurt another childs feelings?

Last night, we cried together….it was an emotionally sad talk yet emotionally and spiritually fulfilling.

We shared stories, I explained and encourage, we cried more….

And yes, Nikki you can be anybody that you want to be and don’t let anybody take away that dream from you. And God knows and that He loves you.

“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6

What do you do when a child quits being a child?

What made them quit being a child?

“All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children.” Isaiah 54:13

When was the last time have you had a talk with your child?

All good things,
Charina

Sunday Musing

Thankful for the everyday blessings of love, family, friends and most of all His unconditional love and grace….without Him, I will be nothing.

Please allow me to share with you all, a glimpse of my wonderful and loving family Here.

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful.” 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV

May our Sunday be filled with love and gratefulness to our Father and to those and everyone that matters the most.

Linking with Barbie @ My Freshly Brewed Life

All good things,
Charina