I Forgive You

As young children we have no concept of how our words and actions can hurt our mother. Then we grow into teenagers and it becomes very clear how these things can hurt, and we will often use them to do just that. It is our way of expressing our anger and frustration when we want to be grown up and in control of our life, when we know that we are not grown up or in control. Our mothers remind of us that often - my house - my rules.

Mothers get the best of their children, but also the worst. We become the one that they take out their frustrations on - the proverbial whipping post as they say. They have no idea how much we take and how much it breaks our hearts, or how often. In spite of all this, we forgive them, as they will forgive their children when they are on the receiving end of all these things. For it is when we become a mother that we know the impact of our children's words and actions. And they will say as we do....

I forgive you for:
  • The first time when you were a small child that you told me "I hate you!"
  • The nights you were out as a teenager and made me worry. 
  • The things you did in public that you knew you shouldn't have.
  • The many Mother's Days when you were having a bad day and ruined my day.
  • The times you did something with someone else, but told me you did not have the time to spend with me.
  • Taking your anger and frustrations out on me when things weren't going the way you planned.
  • Not realizing that I have rough days too and may need someone to listen.
  • Telling me I have no idea what it is like to be going through whatever you are going through. Never realizing that I have been there too.
  • Times you may have made me feel that I was not the best or that I didn't care.
  • Not realizing just how much I love you, and that I would give my life for you.
We may not always like what our children do or say, but we will always love them. And they will always love their children - and so it will continue to go through the generations. Because that is what we do as mothers - love and forgive.


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