HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DARLING MOTHER

Dear Mother,

I want to use this opportunity to celebrate you. You have been a source of joy in my life and in our family. You are not only a mother but a true friend. Whenever am down and I need someone to talk to, you are the only one I can always think of. Even when I speak to you am sure you will not act like my other friends that laugh at my problems behind my back rather you pray earnestly and beg God to make me happy.

Mummy, growing up with all the strict training is something I can never forget. You lashed my siblings and I when we were either disobedient or stubborn and being the first child mine was worse. I hated it then. I honestly taught you did not love me or you were a step- mother from out of space,you used to be my only enemy and never let me be free, catching me in places that I knew I shouldn't be,Every other day I crossed the line, I didn't mean to be so bad I never thought you would become the friend I never had back then I didn't know why  you were misunderstood. So now I see through your eyes all that you did was love and today am happy you beat the stubbornness out of my life. If not for your strict ways I will not have turned out to be the wonderful lady I am today.

You have taught me how to love God, to serve and believe him in all my ways. Years back I always grumbled at the way you always took us for weekly fellowship we had to pray all the time and even fast, I could not understand all the logic back then but now I don’t even need anyone to remind me to either pray or fast. I now know the importance of it all. This world is a mystery content with what I have and

I can remember when I had to go to the market without you and come back and make food for the family; at first those in the market cheated me but you taught me how to haggle, like you always say “ once you have been cheated you cannot be cheated on again”. It’s really funny how the training of a child can transcend to the product of the future. My friends even find it hard to believe how I get a better deal when I go to the market. Today marks a day for me to celebrate you, you have been such a great motivator in my life. You are a true friend and a mother.

I didn't want to hear it then but I'm not ashamed to say it now every little thing you said and did was right for me I had a lot of time to think about the way I used to be and I never had a sense of my responsibility .

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!