A Mother's love
My heart smiles getting to express how overwhelmingly grateful I am to experience this kind of love. It’s like a warm cup of tea, and a hug for a lifetime that I get to carry with me. I enjoy getting to be a daughter, and granddaughter its only one of the many hats I wear. Mothers carry a very specific role in the lives of their children from what I have observed it’s a role of love, protection, foundation and so much more. It’s not a role that can be taken lightly and it’s a gift that has been given to some of the most beautiful women I have gotten a chance to encounter.
Mother’s Day this year felt so different for me, not because I was grieving, I mean yes, a small piece of me was missing my gem of a great-grandmother but it didn’t take precedence like usual. My heart was so full of gratitude like it was amplified, and it was a beautiful feeling. I’m all about giving flowers to my girls while they can smell them and tell me how beautiful they are “I know girl, I know”. Realistically though I adore being able to love on my village as much as I want and as often. I am even more grateful to be able to experience so many different levels at the same time and to know that I have exactly who and what I need is a blessing!
To me, a mother is a covering and a safe space for the heart, she was the first place we called home. The first connection that we have ever had, the first bond to be created, and the first shoulder to ever cry on. I have the pleasure of having a lineup of mother figures in my life, and each one is specifically handpicked for me. First, shoutout to my mama because she did her big one with me, my first residence. She is where I get my resilience, strength, determination, fight and confidence in who I am. To my grandmother, for my heart, my tremendous love for my family, and helping hands, and one of my greatest confidants. To, my fairy Godmother for my gentleness, humility, my spoiled, my consistency, and warmth. To my late great-grandmother, for my sass, my class, my grace, my old soul, and sweetness. This is just scratching the surface of the superwomen that I get to do life with and have here to cover me throughout my journey. To say that I am blessed is an understatement, to say that I am loved it couldn’t be questioned in the slightest.
As I have transitioned into adulthood + womanhood I have had the support of a lovely community here to hold me up and guide me in the direction of love, integrity, and assurance. To know that whenever I need a shoulder to cry on, tea to spill, and some encouragement I have a few to lean on, turn to, and uplift me. All keeping my inner child alive, as I journey and heal into adulthood and learn who I am becoming, simultaneously at the same time. I admire each one of them in their own special way as they have all played such a significant role in the woman I am today. One thing I love the most is how dearly they take my relationship with Christ, so I am constantly covered in prayer and reassured that everything in God’s timing is the will for my life. Things for me have been orchestrated in a way that I have people in place as gentle reminders for me that God doesn’t make mistakes, and they are here to push me into my greater. They are my walking angels and hearts in human form to say the least, my soft landings.
So, Father, I thank you for the graceful, fruitful, and wholesome women you have placed in my life not only for my experience but to see YOU in them. To see your race over and through their lives, and your light shining through them. I love each one of you BIG.
Happy Mama’s Day,
Xo, Tee!