Today I’ll be celebrating Mother’s Day. Well … I’ll be helping the celebrations along anyway. I’ll be celebrating with Emily and James as they honour their wonderful mother, my wife, Pauline. She is the greatest mother and our kids are a real testimony to her skills as a mum.
I’ll also be wishing my mother-in-law a happy Mother’s Day when we drop in on her this afternoon.
But I’ll also be pausing to remember my own mum who passed away over 19 years ago. I’ll be feeling a little sadness that she’s not here with us but when I remember what a wonderful person she was that’ll help to put a smile back on my face.
So many times I experience things that I wish I could share with mum. There are moments in life that I just know mum would have enjoyed. There are things I see that I’d just love to show mum because I know she would have appreciated them.
I know that parents can’t stick around forever but there are so many moments that I wish I could have shared with her.
Mum never saw me realise my dream of becoming a radio announcer. She wasn’t around for any of the 5 times I cycled across Australia or my trips to India. There are so many significant moments in my life that mum missed …. and I really missed her being there.
One of the hardest thing for me is knowing that mum passed away several years before I met Pauline so they never got to meet. I know that they would have got on so well. I would have loved to have seen mum’s smiling face as Pauline walked down the aisle on that hot day in December 1992.
Probably the toughest is that I never got to introduce Emily and James to Grandma Olsen.
Life has its ups and downs but I just wish that I could let mum know that life for her youngest child is good. Very good.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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Thanks for sharing.
It really takes a mother to do many wonders in our life, and we just want to share with her.
There can never be another who will fulfill God’s purposes as completely as a mother!
Happy Mothers’ Day to Pauline, and a blessed day to you and your children.
Yan
Rodney, I lost my dad 11 years ago. I miss him too, & there are things that I wish he could’ve been here for, our wedding. I know he would’ve loved Jo too. I guess days like today we really realize how blessed to have the people in our lives who mean so much to us.
I know that your mum, along with my dad would be so proud as to how their boy’s have turned out.