Moms and Kids: If You're Okay, I'm Okay

You don't have to have given birth to know and understand the bond between mothers and their children. The same bond exists between fathers and children, grandparents and grandchildren, adoptive parents and adopted children, godparents and godchildren, and between pet owners and their pets.

It boils down to this: If your kids are okay, you're okay. If they're not, you're not. The reverse is obviously true, too.

If your mom or your child or your pet is ailing, a part of your energy splits off and joins them - no matter how close or how far away they are. Sure, you can still function at work and at home, but a piece of you isn't there anymore - it's with them. Your mind keeps checking in on them. Your intuition goes into overdrive. The invisible umbilical is awakened, stretched, and engaged. It's both enlivening and draining. You feel more alive because you are feeling more deeply, but the worry wears you out.

You can feel the truth of this energetic split when your loved one gets well and everything is okay again. That part of you that stood guard over them comes back to you, and you feel whole again, at peace. If things don't go well, or they die, it can take a long time for that part of you to return. Sometimes it doesn't, especially if we forget that our love is eternal and that no thing, no time, no space, no person can stand in its way.

We have to cherish and be grateful for the peaceful times and pray for strength when it gets rough. And try to remember that this bond we share with our mothers and our children, human and furry, exists outside of and beyond our bodies and time.

As Julian of Norwich reminds us, All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well. I've found that repeating this saying (a prayer, really) has a calming effect and helps you find some peace.

For a heart-warming look at motherhood, enjoy this wonderful story by my favorite CBS reporter, Steve Hartman, on the CBS Evening News.

Bless mothers and children of all kinds the world over, on this and every day! Happy Mother's Day, G, from me, Pete and George!

Comments

[perfumeshrine]

Lovely thoughts, dear M, and your cat is giving me an hypnotising effect indeed! I should stop looking into its eyes so intensely! LOL!
Happy pet's mother's day, then :-))

[chayaruchama]

How true.
And I love that saying.

Be well, and enjoy the day...