A Mother's Breath

Take a breath, inhale through your nose and now, exhale through your mouth. Do this a few times.....

That is the breathing of a Mother. A woman who spends her day trying to balance womanhood, partnership and parenthood. Her breath is given by God with strength and love but never to be kept for herself. God gives a Mother the breath of life when she has children.

A Mother's breath is like oxygen, important and always needed, no matter the age of the child.

Every morning she sits on the edge of her bed, with bags under eyes and aching muscles, exhaling the stale air from the night before, getting ready for fresh air to be shared.

Her slippers slide along the floor while everyone else still lays in bed, relaxed. Without a complaint, she starts to breath life into the house by filling the lunchboxes, ironing the uniforms and whispering sweetly into her children's ears to wake up.

When she has breathed life into the household, organised chaos often reigns with children and husband/partner taking the breath from her to start their day. Yells of lost items, unsigned letters and missing work items fills her morning.

Before the organised chaos reigns again later in the day, she breathes clean air into the house again, cleaning behind her family, making those important calls, shopping and in a brief, heavenly moment says her prayers with a cup of tea.

A Mother never counts her breaths because they are never her own. They are the cashier she stills smiles at in her stained clothes, they are the words expressed to her family and even the love she shares with her friends when she gets a chance to see them.

As a Mother loses her breath during the day, she does it with love, strength, faith and a smile on her face. She knows how important her breath is and makes sure she shares it always.

A Mother uses her last breath every night to exhale deeply after a day filled with breathing love into a hurt child, breathing fire into another to obey her and for some, breathing a desperate plea for help to her husband or partner.

So....when your Mother breathes words of wisdom into your ear, remember how important that breath is for her and when you breath love into your child, remember that your breath is important to your child whether they realise it or not.

A  Mother will use her last breath to breathe life into others before her own because when she became a Mother she became a daily breath of fresh air.

 To all the Mothers out there....

PS:
To those who have lost a Mother, make her proud by breathing life and love into those around you because she breathed life and love into you.