My mother, my rock

I am usually overwhelmed with emotions many times I think of my mom - like when I think seriously about her. This doesn't take any effort because a lot of things remind me of her.


I feel safe in her company. She is the one person that when I hug I feel safe. Even if she is the one that is ill. If someone ever told me my mom would poison me, my first inclination would be to agree with my mom because I think she is the one person that has my best interest at heart all the time.

Enough about me.

So I was thinking about some random stuff this early saturday morning and I remembered some of the songs my mom taught us as kids. Given that she is not pushy, we must have been more impressionable.


Wide, wide as the ocean
High as the heavens above
Deep, deep as the deepest sea
Is my saviour's love (saviour's love for me)

Why? I'm so unworthy
Still I'm a child of his care
For his love teaches me
That his love reaches me
E-very-where!

Full with demonstrations o!

What occurred to me is that my mom is one person I know that loves the Lord. If she doesn't make heaven then I am not sure I want to be there. She holds no grudge and you can't use her name and anger in the same sentence. She epitomizes long suffering and consistency. She is not judgmental and is ever the pacifist. She is the only person I have literally cried out my hurting heart to 3 of the 4 times I was in that 'condition'. She is unassuming, caring without being nosy, absolutely without drama, easily lovable, not vengeful or shrewd but the best confidante anyone could ask for, wise in a quiet way in the things that matter and a mentor/mother to so many people.

She is the only person I know that loves like a child - who wakes up every morning to speak to her Maker before she wakes all the agbayas in the house for Family devotion. She has always, always done this and it got so bad that if we don't get the 'wake-up call' then it means she is either ill or unavoidably absent.

And that, my friends is truly and unarguably the best person you want to be your mother in your next life! If you are nice enough, I'd be your big sister ...LOL.

Chukwu gozierem Nnem, ezigbo nnem!