Every day is Mother’s Day if only I let it, if I could reframe my perspective and realize that what I was so desperately trying to juggle was an overabundance of blessings
“Every day is Mother’s Day,” my mom used to say. As a child, I could never understand what that meant. How could every day be Mother’s Day? Did we not need one day of the year to stop and express our gratitude to mom for all her hard work? To offer her a yearly overpriced brunch of prime rib and a bouquet of grocery-store flowers and make good our debt?My mother died in 2008 of a ruptured aortic aneurysm. I think she knew her time had come when she started feeling unwell in early 2007.
I don’t think she could have explained the answer to me because the answer, as equally paradoxical as the statement, is that one only knows when one stops trying to know. That is to say, when I released myself from the limits of thought and language and could just gaze into my child’s eyes or catch his smile or see him run toward me, I could understand her words.
I often relied on my mother’s words to pull me back into this deeper reality, to make me see that every day is Mother’s Day if only I let it, if I could reframe my perspective and realize that what I was so desperately trying to juggle was an overabundance of blessings. I am the recipient of gifts beyond my imagining. So while I appreciate all the thoughts and thank-yous that go into this one Sunday in May, there really is no debt to be paid. It seems to me that there is almost an absurdity around the notion of Mother’s Day, much like there would be around a day that celebrates lottery winners.
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