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momer s secrer nope nr,as expression in son eyes tnat reflect love and In firm eyes that discipline, urging adherence to rightness without ever speaking a word.

She is a person who sees no inconsistency in being herself and at the same time sharing herself with her child, calling forth the best in both.

She recognizes that her child is a first-time visitor to this planet, and everything is new. Mother becomes tour director, touching the early dogwoods of the forest, blessing her child by introducing everything that grows.

And "mother's secret hope" outlives all failures because she never sees her child's successes in terms of what he or she does, but what he or she is And when failures happen, it is failure in DOING not BEING.

Whether you are 5 or 50, she never stops being mother. At 5 you are unaware of her secret hope; at 50 she no longer has a secret. You see it in her wrinkled face, roadmapped by your own pilgrimage up several “Fools Hills" and other related mountains.

A "mother's secret hope outlives.. all," because "Her children rise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praises her " (Proverbs 31:28)

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