I want you to know I saw you. I
remember what you did. You didn't think I was paying attention or that I would
see what happened but, you were wrong. I remember it all and it did something
to me that I thought you should know about.
I saw my father trust in you. I
saw him gain strength from your love and support. I saw you do good for him. It
taught me how to be an excellent wife.
I saw you work willingly to care
for your family and for any who entered your house. I saw you as you kissed me
goodnight after spending all day in that willing work only to leave your lamp
on all night as you did more work while I slept to help provide for your
household. I saw you smile though you wanted to cry sometimes from your weariness.
It taught me what a woman’s duty to her family is.
I saw you clothed in strength and
dignity as you opened your arms, your heart, and your life to anyone that
needed you, especially to children, even when they were not always kind to you.
I saw you love me and my brother and still have room to love the house full of
children that were not technically yours but, to you, they were. I saw you care
for poor and needy people in your community, even when things may have been
tight in our own home, because you knew that God would provide our needs for us.
It taught me to be strong in the Lord and do good to all even though I may feel
as though I am the one in need. God will take care of me.
I saw my father gain respect in
the church and in his service to the community. I saw you there beside him. I
saw that you were a big part of why he was and is the man he is. I saw him
praise you. It taught me to show respect to my husband so that he may be
respected by others.
I saw you speak wisely and kindly
to the children in Bible class about God’s love for them. I saw you teaching them
to love and revere His words because He loves them so. It taught me to hold God’s
words in my heart and share them freely with all of His children.
I saw you mom. And these many
years later, as I have been reflecting on the excellent wife that God’s word speaks
of in Proverbs 31:10-31, I see you are that woman and what you have wanted for
me all along is to be the same wife, mother, and woman that God says I should
be.
I saw you mom. You taught me mom.
And now, I want you to know that you are blessed. “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.”
(Proverbs 31:29)
