LLavor-Deita: A mother’s love

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres. Love never fails.” (1 Corinthians 13:4-8)

When I was in high school, I remembered the time I used to answer the meaning of love in slam books or popularly known as “autographs.” I must have written so many definitions already but still I could not find that which struck my heart. So many definitions yet so little impact.

However, I found the real meaning of love when I gave birth to two precious creations. It was a love so pure at first sight that you could hardly breathe and that you just wanted to embrace them all the time and protect them from any harm or danger. It is a love so true, so clean, and so refreshing that you will do anything and everything for these human beings that you had carried for nine months in your womb. It is called a mother’s love.

A mother’s love is really patient and kind. Just try to imagine being pregnant for nine months with all the healthy foods that you need to eat and vitamins that you need to take just to make you and the baby healthy. Then, you have to bear the herculean labor of giving birth. After giving birth there would be sleepless nights of watching the baby especially when he or she gets sick. Next, you would send them to school and fetch them afterwards and even share their pains when they get broken hearted.

You see, being a mom is a twenty-four seven job with more overtime but no pay. Please don’t get me wrong, I am not complaining, this is just to share that being a mom is a great task that every mother should be proud of because we are chosen by God to take care of these children. No mother in this world with sound mind will try to harm their children. Moreover, nobody in this world also would have the right to question and challenge your love to your children unless you did something evil that would place your soul in the ninth circles of hell.

Given this privilege to write, let me take this opportunity to say that I had frightening yet challenging experiences with my eldest child, Julia, because I was still young when I had her and I didn’t know what to do. I was scared that I might do something that would harm my daughter. Then, here came my second child, my son Joshua who is celebrating his 12th birthday this April 25.

I thought I was prepared now because it was my second already. However, the labor pains that I had experienced for thirty-six hours were really a death defying one. It was then I understood the old adage of our elders that says one foot of the woman when giving birth is in the pit while the other foot is firmly holding on to the ground.

If this is not love then I don’t know how to call it. All I know is that a mother will not allow failure to rule over her love for her children. After all, a mother’s love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres.

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