Happy Mother's Day

The Song Goes:

“Your grace and mercy
Brought me through   …………

I'm living this moment because of you”

This was the song of my heart today.  Why?

Yesterday, my son asked me to sign a card for his mom [my ex-wife].

It was one of the biggest mountains in my life. 

It meant so much to him, but, he just does not understand.

Then the song rang in my heart.  Through it all, the past few years of hell on earth, God has “Brought me through”;  “I want to thank you and praise you to” why, because, “Your grace and mercy brought me through”.  The Hell was the divorce from 2012.  

Its been tough, but, my son, the youngest suffered the most.  I am being patient, just like I was for my daughter. 

It was doubly hard for me today because of her.  She called her mom and her mom asked for her to be with her for Mother’s Day. 

I told her my story, as they had told me their’s in the past.

Each year, months at a time, my mom made me write a letter, and send pictures to my dad.

The absentee dad, the one whom never attended a graduation, I had only vague memories of one Christmas with a toy car in a shoe box under my bed.  It was my favorite one.

He was the $10.00 dad.  We got $10.00 in aluminum foil, on Christmas and on Birthdays, in an international envelope from Puerto Rico.

Well, when I took custody of him, about 2000, I knew what it meant.

I found in his possessions, most sacred of all, all the pictures and letters my mom sent.  He kept them all.

He was in part the stolen dad. 

US American Racism had taken him away from us. 

My mom’s had cheated on him, but his coping skills was alcohol.

And then, of course, NYPD cracked his head open, leaving a permanently impaired person in its wake.

[In 2010, Wendell PD tried to take me away from my kids; it was a flashback to my childhood.  And it shows racism is still very much alive. Then, 2012 happened when she cheated with the church drummer, but no liquor here.]

He in part chose not to be with his family, me, “his favorite son”; part was due to his own addictions to women and liquor thereafter.  But part was due because he could no longer be a provider,

After having his head cracked open, a secondary mental illness, because a primary impediment. 

This hurts most of all, but “His Grace and Mercy, Brought me through”, the song was spiritually sung at Universal Temple.  God is Good. 

So, I talked to both of my children, and, although I generally do not get anything for Father’s Day, Birthdays, and Valentines Day, even in my marriage, I always try to make sure they have the option of getting something for their mom and sister. 

This year I did the same, with differing results by both children, [and I would rather not discuss the results to protect them];  but he looked at me and asked me to sign. 

I signed the card for his mom, in his best interest.  As I wait patiently for God.  God is Good, all the time.

Doing the right thing, on any special occasion, can have a reward years later.  I remember one time the kids came home and told me that someone had touched their “mom’s sacred things”, and she was furious.  Those things were things I had given her throughout the Years.  And then there was that unusual phone call during the winter when she thanked me for all the times I shoveled the snow, filled the gas tank, and made sure the car was ready for her to go to work.

Hence, obeying my mom, on Mother’s day, is what I am doing, and Thereby doing the Will of God.  Remember your mom or a family member or someone you consider to be mom on Mother’s Day. 

Doing the right thing is a blessing two you.  As I heard the radio today, someone my hit you or treat you badly, but a fight only begins when you return blows for blows. 

For the most part, this is in dedication to my daughter, due to undisclosed events that happen today with her mom regarding Mother’s Day.  God Bless.  Happy Mother’s Day to All. 

[Resource:

Mississippi Mass Choir - Your Grace and Mercy

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Lead:

Your grace and mercy
Brought me through
I'm living this moment because of you
I want to thank you and praise you to
Your grace and mercy brought me through

Thank you for saving a sinner like me
To tell the world salvation is
There were times when I
I just didn't do right
But you you, you watched over me
All day and night

Listen, justice justice demanded that I should die
But grace and mercy said oh no, oh no, oh no we've already paid the price
You see, I I once was lost
But thank God I can see
It was because grace and mercy, came along and rescue, rescued me
Oh, your grace

Chorus:

Your grace and mercy
Brought me through
I'm living this moment because of you
I want to thank you and praise you to
Your grace and mercy brought me through

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