Shout Out To Mama

Today is a gift, take nothing for granted.

As I saw my son off to school this morning, I begin to reminisce on my Mama, and all the sacrifices she made for me. The most vivid is waiting for hours on the front porch for my dad to come for visitation, he never showed up. She would console me, and tell me "maybe next week he will show up." She never talked bad about him.

My Mama raised six children, while working with children in the Dade County Public School System. This was a daunting task. My Mama went to work everyday, she had to really be sick to miss a day from work. She was also the church secretary (unpaid), she typeset the church programs and printed them out every Saturday, then she went home to prepare meals for our family and the friends we invited for dinner after church. On communion Sunday (The Lords Supper), she prepared the unleavened bread, and purchased the Kosher Welches grape juice we took for communion.

My Mama was loyal to her parents, she honored them (Respect your father and mother” is the first commandment that has a promise added:Ephesians 6:2 GNT). She checked on them everyday, and when she had time during her lunch break, she would go over to their home and visit with them. I told her she has earned her long life 80 y.o. and counting. I told her I hope to live as long as she has 54 and counting.

I thought she was being too strict on me, when she made me open a bank account at 17, when I was in high school, she made me save every paycheck I earned while going to high school in the morning, and working at the States Attorneys Office in the afternoon. I was also taught to pay tithes at my grandfathers church Northside Church of God in Miami Florida.(Bring the full amount of your tithes to the Temple Malachi 3:10 GNT).

In the 80s, your parents had to sign for your classes in High school. I wanted to study cosmetology, my Mama refused to sign the paperwork, instead she told me that she did not want me standing on my feet all day, I had to become a secretary.

Unlike millennials today, we were not allowed to question or back talk our parents on any level, we understood the importance of respect. Many years later, while doing her hair, she apologized to me, and said "she wished she had signed the papers, she also told me I was her smartest child."

My Mama is an awesome and phenomenal woman. I would not be the woman I am today, had it not been for my Mama. 

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