Mothers

If there were a way to measure love, think of the explosive measurement that would result from the first time a mother holds her newborn baby.  It's a love that is immeasurable.  It's also a love that is indescribable.  It's just there.  It's powerful, it's explosive, and it's forever.

When we hold our babies for the first time, it's a feeling that will stay with us forever.  We gaze into those squinty little eyes, and we are lost forever.  It doesn't matter if the baby is the ugliest human ever born, it's a beautiful baby to it's mother. 

We have no idea of what lies ahead, we just know we love.  We know we will always love, and that's all we think of at the time.  It's good that's all we can think of at the time.  If we could see the future, we could not enjoy the present.

The future often holds things for us, and for that baby, who will become an adult, that we could not cope with, if we knew what was ahead.  Life trains us, even though we think it doesn't, it trains us for those moments in time that if we knew were coming, we would just give up.  When those days come, and we are living them, we often think we will not survive them, but we do.  We survive them because we loved that baby from the moment we first held them, and we will love them until forever.  We don't have to like what they do, or the choices that they make, or the trials they put us though, but we will always love them.

The love of a mother is powerful.  A mother would rather die herself, than to lose her child in death.  A mother would rather take on all of her child's pain, than to see her child suffer.  For a mother to practice tough love is costly.  Mothers heal, mothers fix, mothers kiss and make things better, and when a mother can't heal, or fix, or kiss away the pain, it's costly to the mother.  

A mother's love cannot be measured on any scale made by man.  For all those who have a mom, a mom who loves them, just understand, she will always love you, even when she doesn't like you, she will love you.  When she makes you furious, or you make her furious, you feel like you can't understand her, or she doesn't understand you, you feel like she is too involved, just know this, she loves you.  She loves you without measure, because that's what a mother's love is.  A love without measure.