A's Happiness Blogs

Happy Mother's Day!   Today we celebrate mothers!! I cannot let this day pass with out celebrating the life my own mother, Miriam, or Ann as she liked to be called.  I could never post my feelings about my mom after she passed a way in 2022 until today.  It hurt too much, and I found myself getting sad.  My mother was a loving mother. She was truly an example of a Godly woman.  She took us to church every Sunday and she taught us about God. Whenever I had questions about life or the bible, I can remember sitting in her kitchen at the table she used to prep her meals and had a long talks with her. Sometimes we laughed and even cried.  She even took that time to encourage me to go further with my life. That's the type of mother she was. She always wanted us to do all we needed to do to better ourselves.  She was a mom who did not play about me or my siblings. She got on all four of us the same and she loved us all just the same. She even loved all eleven...

Find yourself a quiet place and just reflect. Think back on all you have gone through in your life.    How did you handle it? Did you feel alone? Did you feel like it was something that you could not handle on your own?   We all have had that feeling in our lives. We all have felt like we could not handle the situation that we were placed in. We even question why we were going through what we were going through.   We might have found ourselves saying “I cannot handle this. This is too much for me.” Or we may be finding ourselves questioning why things are happing.    But I am gaining the understanding as I grow older, that it is in our going through the things we do, it makes us grow stronger in the Lord.  Why, because we come to the understanding that God is there with us no matter what.    This is why I want you to be somewhere quiet and just think.     Think back on all you have gone through in your life. All the good things and ...