The Unconditonal Heart of A Mother

   It's the day after "Mother's Day." I'm sure most mothers experienced joy and the company of their children or flowers, etc. sent if the distance perhaps kept them apart.
   For some mothers yesterday or any day might be a tough one. They are the mothers who may be struggling with a child with addiction, mental illness or just has walked away from family values and faith in God. It's in times like this that mothers with courage and perseverance show what unconditional love truly is.
   They feel their children's pain when they experience disappointment, struggles and also when they have made bad choices.
   She's one that would trade places during those hard times and wishes she could shield them. But it's also the same mother that knows she can't even if she could when those trials are the only thing that might save them too.
   The mother who after giving the wayward one all the loving advice she can also has to step back and watch as her child struggles to get out the pit he has dug for himself. She cries to God daily with her pain and tears for that child.
   While everyone else has written them off or when she hears someone say, "He'll never change", she refuses to give up and waves her battle flag higher.
   Though this child has grown into adulthood and the life he has chosen has taken its' toil, she still fights with faith, prayers and tears to replace the story he is writing for his life.
   And while others see a defeated and washed up individual, she sees with her heart the child she carried as a baby, the child walking with his hand in hers and she sees the smile when he presents his first drawn picture or something he made just for her in school.
   These memories don't fade, they aren't written away or washed up in her heart or vision. They are seared deep within and they are surrounded with hope.
   She waits to finish writing her child's story with true victory that says, "Happy Mother's Day" every day.

3 John 1: v.4 KJV  "..I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth."