A Mother's Love

Most of us have heard that you shouldn’t get between a mother bear and her cubs. The depth of the power and love in a mother’s heart is pretty phenomenal. It says in the Bible that the eyes are the window to the heart and if you look into the eyes of a mother when it comes to their child this becomes clear.

Look at the intensity in a mother’s eye as she watches her 3 year old take her first ride on a water inner tube. She looks as if she could walk on water if the tube were to tip. Look at the pride as a mother watches her 9year old over come his fear and jump from the tower into the water below. She is at once extremely happy for her son and yet totally relieved that he was not hurt. Or the realization in the eyes of the mother who’s 6 year old just told her that she wants to jump from the tower next year. She is proud that her daughter has no fear and at the same time wanting to protect her daughter.

Then on the other side look into the eyes of a mother of a sick child and see the agony of not being able to ‘kiss it and make it better’. She knows that her daughter will struggle and she will be there to support her all along the way. The look of grief as a mother sits and holds the hand of her daughter as cancer ravages her body knowing that death will not come soon enough to bring relief to her daughter and yet create a hole in her own heart that will never heal.

The capacity of a mother’s heart is incomprehensible. The capacity for joy, for dreams and for pain, the capacity for pure love.