Blog # 7 Do What You Have To Do (This I Believe)

                                                                               A Mothers Love of a Child

 

So, I just got finished reading and listening to quite a few different stories and this one jumped out for me. Matter of fact, I even copied her last paragraph she wrote talking about her looking at the moon and her son looking at the moon, and at that that moment they were both connected as if she was giving her a son a hug.

One of the reason I loved this story so much was here was a mother talking about her beliefs and how she was against war and all that inculcates; then 9/11 took place and her son informed her that he was joining the Marines. So far all those believe she had she put them on the back burner and decided to stand by her son. She was a woman who thought teaching love and art was the answer to war and now she had to join forces of the most evil thing that she had condemned.  I felt it was such a powerful statement, knowing that a mother loves her child unconditionally no matter what his decision was. I wish more parents could be open-minded and less opinionated as this mother was. I feel she is an excellent role model to all parents and I was proud that I was able to read such a beautiful story that could impact me to where I felt proud to write about her. It was truly a phenomenal story.

"I was driving home from a late meeting when my son called. The moon in my skies lay behind a slight haze, but it shone steadfast and bright, nearly full. I asked Daniel if the moon was out where he was. He said hold on a moment—yes, he could see it too. I told Daniel I was looking at the moon at that very moment and that he and I were making a triangle with our trajectories of sight. The sunlight reflecting off that pockmarked orb was connecting me to my child just as surely as had I put my arms around him. I felt like a navigator and had found my star, and that star had found my son."