The Most Important Person on Earth
"The most important person on earth is a mother. She cannot claim the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral - a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby's body ...The angels have not been blessed with such a grace. They cannot share in God's creative miracle to bring new saints to Heaven. Only a human mother can. Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other creature; God joins forces with mothers in performing this act of creation ...What on God's good earth is more glorious than this: to be a mother?"
-Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty
I love this, it is just a small part of a bigger quote and what is here is so beautiful, but does not touch upon the enormous generosity, openness, readiness and fullness of love that comes in such a unique way from adoptive mothers. God's creation of souls begins in the womb, but is loved and nurtured even beyond ...in the arms of the day to day mother.
To all the mothers I know, Happy Mothers' Day. You are my heroes, my beacons ...my ladder!
Love to all of you, Carolyn
Eternal rest grant unto Phoebe and may perpetual light shine upon her and may she rest in peace. Amen.
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