Stuck Like Glue
Mother’s Day is just around the corner. Every year it pulls on my heartstrings (well, every year since my mom has since passed) and now since another amazing legacy has entered Heaven it has me pondering on how special mothers are. How mothers have their families stuck like glue – together – with an unbreakable bond.
Mother’s are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together… Susan Gale
It will be 4 years this summer that my mother has passed and recently my mother-in-law was celebrated into Heaven. I remember feeling strange when my mom passed. Like a piece of me was missing. A weird sense of emptiness, but with a gnawing feeling like a hole had just occurred. It was actually very hard to describe, yet so easily felt. I was explaining this to not only my husband, but also my sister-in-law as they were processing their loss.
Mom’s hold a special place in a child’s heart. It doesn’t matter if you’re a 5-year-old or over 50, your mom is a special puzzle piece in the centre of your core. She’s like glue holding your heart together. Growing up, your mom was there molding and piecing your heart back together after each heartbreak or sadness that occurred. Her love, kindness, words of wisdom and guidance glued your heart together from the moment you were conceived to the moment she passed on.
Once your mom has passed, it’s almost like your heart has to be reglued and as much as it looks the same, it will always have a piece missing or a strength that has diminished. That spirit glue she held inside you has left leaving that bit of emptiness you just can’t quite explain. It’s like one of the most important pieces of your life’s puzzle is lost (as told by the author of It’s A Puzzle devotional).
How To Cope or Become Reglued?
- Honour your mom daily
- Pass her traditions onto your own children
- Tell funny ‘mom’ stories
- Buy her favourite flowers to brighten up your home
- Talk to her like she’s still here. She hears you
With two legacies passed and seeing the impact they both had on their families, I pray I can be that to my children. Each day, I do my best to uplift them, guide them, make them laugh (I often send them funny cat videos to which they do shake their heads and laugh), provide for them, protect them and love them dearly and wholeheartedly like the strongest of glue imaginable. My love for them is stuck like glue into their hearts for eternity.
When you actually think of the world GLUE – it has a pretty good alternative meaning:
Each of those words undeniably describe a mother and is what I strive for daily for my own children.
So, on this Mother’s Day, as I reflect on my own mother and my mother-in-law, I will also be reflecting on the gift of my children. I am stuck like glue to their joyful and kind hearts. They have both grown into such loving, adventurous, kind, and giving adults who is a gift not only to myself and my husband, but also to anyone who gets the pleasure of meeting them. I am proud and so honoured to be their mom and I hope their hearts are held firm by each and every piece of love-glue provided to them daily. Being your mom is the best accomplishment I have ever done and I am so grateful.
