A Mother’s Sacred Love – Graphic Print

COMMENTARY

I wrote this poem on Mother’s Day in 1990. We must remember that the masculine as well as the feminine forms of love flow from the heart of God. Although He is much more than the two, He does contain in His beautiful nature both types of character. He contains the natures of the man and the woman, and much more than any of us can discern. This poem extols the virtues of the woman. She does not merely give birth to children, but the qualities of her maternal and wifely love are given in the words,

She walks about on Holy Ground
To soothe her baby’s cry.
Will not she give thus in its place,
A life for life to die?

To a loving mother one gift of God is to show a protective love that finds it reasonable for the mother to risk her life to save her baby. After all, the closest to death that most women ever come is at the time of the delivery of a baby when she loses dangerous amounts of blood, and all the systems of her body are stressed to the limits of human endurance. Thus, through such strain and stress she produces a new life into the world. However, she soon forgets the pain and trauma at the joy of bringing forth a child into the world.

NOTE: This poem is one of many found in the collection Jewels from His Crown