There are many things in life that contribute to our Being.  Many of life’s experiences culminate in our hearts, souls and minds to give us our sense of self.  The lessons we learn from situations and circumstance all have much to with who we are internally and externally.

Nothing in all our lives will have the profound effect on the creation that is us as the one found in God’s very first gift to us.  What is this gift?  Well, as we look back to the beginning of our time here in this physical realm it becomes plain to see where the majority of ourselves has developed from.

As we look back to the very instance of our physical conception it becomes ever more obvious.  The range of influence is insurmountable.  Emotional, physical and spiritual input is unleashed upon us from an unrivaled physical source that gives freely and unconditionally for a single purpose.  The primary functions of nurturing, protecting and ensuring the growth of our physical bodies and spiritual souls.

Our first gift from God in this physical realm of our existence is our mother.  She is the one who sustains us while we begin a physical life in the womb.  All God’s blueprints come to life in the body of our mother.  The set of plans which contain the potential for our Being are set in motion and the creation takes its first step in the realization of what will be Spirit with body and the essence of our Being.

What our mothers feel we feel even before our birth.  Emotional experiences are passed on to us even in our fetal state.  We can be calmed by music and excited by chaos.  It is possible for us to react to stress and fear as well as peace and love.  In her Being comes our Being.

It is what our mother drinks that we drink.  What she eats we eat.  So it is as she breathes we do to.  Our hearts although separate are dependent on each other for so many things.  For all intensive purposes we are One existing as two for about a nine month duration of which her primary objective is to bring us through the process unscathed.

After the birth her job continues.  It is an endless sacrifice of self for her child.  Her entire life begins to revolve around assuring that the child’s needs are met in all ways.  The baby must be fed, clothed and cleaned continually.  Its safety and health must be carefully monitored throughout the day.  It must experience love and comfort physically and mentally in order to grow to its greatest potential for Being.

Our mother becomes our first teacher.  She helps us to walk and to talk, read and write and introduces us to all things of Spirit.  If she maintains a strong connection with us all these things become the seeds of hope, faith and love sowed in our hearts.

Moms teach us all the time whether intentionally or unintentionally.  We learn from them even when we don’t know we are learning.  Much of the things I cherish about myself today all came from my mother’s ways.  She taught me to treat others as I would like to be treated in a simple statement, “Ronnie, you wouldn’t want someone to do that to you.”   She set the stage for my spiritual foundation by setting me inside a church and keeping the Bible in a prominent place in our home.  She gave me the things from within it daily as circumstances arose.  Funny, she rarely told me the Bible says, but always showed me in her own unique way exactly what It said.  It was her who taught me to appreciate all of God’s creations without telling me to appreciate all of God’s creations.  Her sacrifices’ exhibited to me the necessity to sacrifice as her giving taught me to give unconditionally.

Always safe and always secure; never knowing our poverty in poverty or our abundance in abundance.  Never questioning from where our needs would be fulfilled, seldom without hope and rarely wanting more than all that we had.  As a child we trust that all is well, in calm and in chaos we find peace and joy because of our Mothers.