Before Christmas eve, a man
stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers to be wired to his mother who
lived two hundred miles away.
As he got out of his car he
noticed a young girl sitting on the curb sobbing.
He asked her what was wrong and
she replied, "I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother.
But I only have fifty pesos, and
a rose costs eighty pesos."
The man smiled and said,
"Come on in with me. I'll buy you a rose."
He bought the little girl her rose
and ordered his own mother's flowers.
As they were leaving he offered
the girl a ride home.
She said, "Yes, please! You
can take me to my mother."
She directed him to a cemetery,
where she placed the rose on a freshly dug grave.
The man returned to the flower
shop, canceled the wire order, picked up a bouquet and drove to his mother's
house.
My dear friends, we have heard of many
stories of greatness about mothers but we seldom know one story about children
who do great things for their mother. But this we know: a mother’s joy is her
children. Any mother can say how true this feeling is towards their children.
In re-reading the Gospel (Luke 1:39-45), we can find how happy or joyful the
two expectant mothers were –Mary and Elizabeth. Both were concerned about their
babies in their womb. They cared less about other circumstances that surrounded
them but they were more focused on their babies. Their babies grew in their love
and with the love of God. When their babies became adults, they never shamed
their mothers (Elizabeth and Mary) before the public. Rather, they made their mothers proud.
Today, let us pray for all our mothers.
May Mama Mary and St. Elizabeth guide their children so that those mothers may
be honored before anybody. As Christmas scene is not complete without Mama
Mary, a family Christmas Day is not complete without a mother. Christmas is
about Jesus. If we are true followers of Jesus, then we should also aspire to
make our family one with a mother like what we see in the nativity picture of
Jesus. May all our mothers find their worth in sacrificing themselves just to
give life for their children. Amen.
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