Blessed Mother's Day - My Note to My Child on Mother's Day: The Gift Within the Grief or One Death on Earth… One Million Heart-Strings to Heaven

A mother only grieves because she loves so deeply.

~Carly M. Dudley

Blessed Mother's Day

My Note to My Child on Mother's Day:

The Gift Within the Grief

or

One Death on Earth…

One Million Heart-Strings to Heaven

One death on earth yields

One million heart-strings straight to Heaven,

Seemingly pulled and tormented daily,

Missing you these years past ~ seven

now, and counting. Wrapped you are

around my heart, feeling each beat beating

even as you go about your Heavenly tasks,

even as I feel you tugging each step of your way 

on the heartstrings within which our love basks.

Bearing this grief seems somehow a gift

as it connects me this closely with you,

going deeper in my heart that I ever thought

it could go, ever reminding me of our

equally deep love, so that it gives my heart a lift!

(How can I reject bearing 

this cross when it bears you as well,

knowing I had the privilege of loving you

here those nineteen years, and loving you

seven more now from here to There?)

My mothering continues on, in Spirit 

now, not flesh…! So painful, yet, a blessing,

still getting to love you, and that deeply tender 

heart (that cried harder than any of ours each

time we lost an animal while you were here… )

What a gift, what a blessing, to know 

such a love as ours, that keeps on going on,

even growing deeper and deeper, 

(if that is even possible!).

I cry for you so deeply with these mother's tears

that never cease to run dry despite all these years.

What a marvelous love is that, from one soul

touching another?! 

It can only lead one to the Creator's 

heart, what deep deep Love He had for us

that He gave us this love, one for the other. 

(Some people around can't understand what

continues to make me cry; perhaps I should grieve

for them too if they have not such a love as you and I.)

Though grief feels like a curse that keeps me broken 

down, it rends my heart toward Heaven, ever keeping

me on Sacred Ground! Even He, our LORD, was

One well acquainted with Grief, grief  so important in His

Kingdom that even He was not spared that deepest pain 

that can only look to our Heavenly Father for sweet relief. 

So important are our tears to Him, He even 

stores them up in bottles! (Whatever will He do 

with them, these oceans of tears we cry?) He even 

designed in them , now we are told, key ingredients

that soothe our hearts and bring us immediate relief!

It is so like Him to take our cross, and use it to bless us

with deeper blessings than we can see, like cherishing a 

love that lasts through the years, growing deeper every 

year, making our hearts more tender, drawing our hearts 

closer to His! 

He comforts us that all creation groans; it is not only we

mothers who long for our children too soon taken away, 

and yet we get the Greater Grief, for love such as ours will not 

affect us gently; it renders us down upon the ground, gasping 

for breath through each tear. Oh what a vast and bottomless 

love that demands such grieving rounds! 

So my child, I am beautifully blessed this Mother's Day 

to have my heart strung out across a town and two 

states loving your brothers here, and my heart 

strung out all the way to Heaven, loving you

through every tear! 

Thank you for blessing my Mother's Day

with reminders of your love, for visiting me in a dream this week, 

surprising me too with chuckles each day when I see things

I know are from you, a laugh we can share that only your 

unique sense of humor could have sent my way, and so many

other sweet touches that bless my heart each day. 

Hold Mommy close in your heart and prayers, knowing how 

much I long for you, and hold me especially close this 

Mother's Day as I still reel from my short "visit" with you in that dream; 

it brings hefty sobs each time I remember it (for I was sitting next to you!). 

Continue to pull on these million heart strings; 

I feel your loving touch with every one, and 

somehow I'll be able to smile through every tear...

Thank you for your deep, deep love you've poured out for me today 

and every day, and thank our LORD for giving me a precious 

daughter that so lovingly affects me that way. 

Give Mother/GrandMommy my love and a "Happy Mother's Day!"

 through a big hug and a kiss from me. (She's cried with me, too,

 celebrating your love, and loves and guides me each day!)

I love you and miss you and long to be with you, but I thank you 

that you ever remind me I'm just a heart-string and a prayer away…!

Poem - The Gift Within the Grief or One Death on Earth… One Million Heart-Strings to Heaven ~Angie Bennett Prince - May 8, 2014

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Wishing all mothers who have a child in Heaven a 

~Peaceful Mother's Day~

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You don't 'Stop being a Mother,'

When a child passes away…

Now you nurture 'Spirit,'

As you go from day to day…

Never will you forget them,

Your bodies were once one…

they will live within your soul,

And are never really gone…

The Heaven's know your sorrow,

And every tear that you have cried…

They too have 'mourned a loss,'

When someone they loved died…

Have 'Faith' in your Heavenly Father,

And in Jesus Christ His Son…

He was 'Our Living Example,'

And Death we'll overcome...

~Poem ©Mary G. ~ Love for All

Top graphic, thanks to
Carly M. Dudley, grieving mother
http://123parades.com/grieving-mothers-grieving-mothers-in-the-2014/

Middle two graphics, thanks to
~Grieving Mothers

Final graphic, thanks to
grieving mother, Ramona Kryski
http://www.pinterest.com/ramonakryski/grieving-mothers/