Tell me Ima, what gift can I give you on Mother’s Day?

Tell me Ima, what gift can I give you on Mother’s Day?

Something Soft? Something Hard?

Maybe I will give you a soft heart that can yield easily to pressures and pains. Or maybe I will give you a heart as hard as steel that can withstand all pressures and pains.

Something Long? Something Short?

Maybe I can ask God to give you long life so you can be with your children for the longest time. Or maybe I can ask God to shorten the time that you are not with us.

Something Big? Something Small?

Maybe I will build you a big house so you can enjoy moving around. Or maybe I will just build you a small house so you won’t tire yourself moving around.

Something Colorful? Something Plain?

Maybe I will give you something colorful to make your life picture perfect. Or maybe I will give you something plain to make your life purer in the eyes of our Heavenly Father.

Something Sweet? Something Sour?

Maybe I will give you something sweet to make your meals complete. Or maybe I will give you something sour like Vitamin C to keep you away from colds.

Something Comic? Something melodramatic?

Maybe I will give you something comic to make you laugh all day. Or maybe I will give you something melodramatic like a volume of telenovelas that will make you sit and relax watching them all day.

Tell me Ima, what can I give you on Mother’s Day?

I guess I don’t need to give you any of the things I mentioned.

You don’t need a heart that can yield easily to pressures and pains nor a heart that can withstand all those. For you know nothing about pains and sorrow because our dear God gave you a heart that knows only happiness…

You don’t need longer time to be with your children for in your heart you know it’s not how long you are with them but how long have you been keeping them.

You neither need a big house nor a small house for in our Holy Father’s house you have a mansion.

You don’t need a colorful life for in the eyes of God you are pure and picture perfect.

You don’t need something sweet for dessert for God’s words are your bread of life.

You don’t need to watch comedy shows nor watch telenovelas for your life itself is comic and melodramatic full of laughter and tears, beautifully written, scripted and directed by God.

Left Photo: Ima in 1950, photo taken at Selegna Photo Studio
Right Photo: Me and Ima in 1969

Note: Our Ima is now 82 years old and very active in the church.