Its Mama….
January 10, 2021
Madison, Kenton, and Johnson,
Welcome to a New Year. Having just spent a full week with our whole family living together while at the beach, my Mama’s heart is filled to overflowing with love and peace and joy. Some day you will understand the fullness that comes when you bear witness to your children loving and caring for one another…the laughter, gentle arguing, game play banter, moments of tender compassion will fill my heart for a long time…
And so started off our New Year 2021….it was magical!
Madison asked me a few months back to re-ignite my blog which was originally called “The Road Less Traveled Always Leads Home” a take on one of my very favorite poems by Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both.
And be one traveler, long I stood.
And looked down one as far as I could.
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear.
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay.
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh.
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
I have loved that poem and especially the very last verse…”two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. I thank David Chism, my middle school Language Arts teacher for introducing me to Mr. Frost.
In this life, my prayer is that you will not only take the road less traveled by but that you will take the one leading home…to God, to Heaven….eternal home. In truth, the journey home to heaven is the only one that will ever matter, and it will be the only one to truly take you to the place you really want to go….
Home
Later, the name was changed to “If It’s Monday, It’s Mama’ and not it is simply “Its Mama”….under my blogsite “Wholehearted One”
With this first of the year blog, I decided to start once again with the alphabet as you, Madison, said that was a season of blogging you enjoyed the most.
That being said, today, I start with A – affection…
Which according to Miriam Webster means
“tender attachment”
And that is what your mama has for each of you, her babies….
I truly am your earthly “day one” which is a position I cherish and hold dear. With it comes great responsibility, some of which I have carried well and some of which I have not.
But, through it all, our love has carried us…like a well-worn marriage
“for better or worse,
for richer or poorer,
in sickness or in health
until death do us part”
Thirty five years ago, I did not understand the importance of covenants, which is what the marriage vow is…even with all of my Christian upbringing and good and Godly parents, I somehow did not understand the importance of covenantal love and commitment and the golden thread of affection or tender attachment you make when you create a marriage and have children. I didn’t understand that it was a tender attachment meant to last forever emulating our relationship with God…
But I do now….
And, while others may not forgive my failure to understand that lack of knowledge, you children do…
And God does….
And that is all that matters…..
I want my legacy to you to be one of humble repentance and true turning away from worldly things and toward God
I want you to see a life of tender attachment to our heavenly Father for the balance of my days…
To walk with me in the direction of a true home where love and affection, kindness, compassion, humility, authenticity and
Tender attachment
Bind us together now while we live on this earth
And ultimately later
In heaven
So, as we head into the unknown of what this New Year….
My prayer is that you have affection for each other, for me and Ian, for your significant others and their families, for your grandparents and your family in general…
That you work hard to be tenderly attached in a wholesome and Godly way to those whom God places in your life as you journey through…
I love you as only our Mama can,
Mama
