A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.
Interpretation
A mother is essential to our existence and emotional world; her absence is profoundly felt.
This quote emphasizes the pivotal role of a mother in our lives, portraying her as both the physical source of our being and a central figure in our emotional landscape. The analogy of waking up without the sky underscores the depth of loss experienced in her absence, highlighting how integral she is to our perception of the world.
In practice
This quote could be used in a eulogy to honor a mother's memory.
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.
One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.
It is in the home that we form our attitudes, our deeply held beliefs. It is in the home that hope is fostered or destroyed. Our homes are to be more than sanctuaries; they should also be places where God’s Spirit can dwell, where the storm stops at the door, where love reigns and peace dwells
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You shouldn't have a baby if there's no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.
I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
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