Choices, and Paths, 2 of 2

So the one thing I can think of that mitigates all of these conveniences and renders each one of them meaningless is... Love.

Plain and simple. When you have love, it suddenly doesn't matter what you have or don't have.

It's true, just look at some dads - an unmotivated man can suddenly find inspiration in the sleepy little thing that's just been born yesterday, suddenly find the spring in his step, suddenly loving to go to work because he's found something that blows the dreariness of work out of the water.

Love. It blows things out of the water.


Some of you single people (like me) know that you strive now because you have a love big enough to have gone through 9 months and labour to have me: our mothers.

My mother, she suffers me. To have put up with my beauty and pride and humility and warmth and the occasional pouting - she suffers me. But even when I'm being suffered because she loves, she still enjoys me.

Because I can't help but be beautiful to the ones who made me, and in itself, is doubly or even triply more wounding or rewarding to them, to just watch me. But wounding or rewarding, my mother and father are suddenly big enough to take me because of this fascination called love.

Truly, you don't know patience until you have a child. And you don't know how you are until you see it mimicked by that adorable rascal, from postures to manners to words.

Ah, that's when you scramble to be the person you wanted to be -chuckle-


As for me, well... I know I'm not there in my life path yet, but I will, God willing.

Right now I know that as I walk, even if I make mistakes, my God is big enough to take me, my mistakes. Even my anger/tantrums and blaming Him for things happening. Like my anxious mother He will put me back in my path, like my badass father He will make sure to warn and guide me, and shoot anyone who tries to be funny. And meanwhile, I take the path advised because Proverbs 22:3.

He who makes me lie down and guides me to quiet waters (Psalm 23:2).


So... here's hoping you recognise the love worthwhile, finally recognising the love you've had all your life. Bless you, the way you wish to be blessed. Bless you and yours - may you restore the ties that bind.

Amen.