by kidsmadeeasy

Created on: January 09, 2007   Last Updated: May 14, 2007

The strength of a mother's love is one that can never be broken. A mother has the strongest bond to her children that any two people can have. Her children are her life's blood. I can remember the first time I felt this bond and the helplesness it can create. My 16 year old daughter was nine months old, and her father and I took her to the beach. For no apparent reason, she started having terrible difficulty breathing. We rushed her to the hospital and they kept her overnight with me by her side, hooked up to a heart monitor and breathing monitor. They took blood from her little heels as I stood there watching her fight for her every breath. All night I held her while she frantically tried to breathe and cry. The doctors never did figure out what was wrong. It was unbelievably hard to see her struggle while I could do nothing to help her.

The second time I felt this incredible bond was when my 14 year old son disappeared on his sister's bicycle at the age of two and a half. I ran crying and screaming his name up and down the streets of our neighborhood, desperate with fear. I called 911 and the police were there within 3 minutes. They found him around the block on the next street over. Four police cars roared up and down the streets of our neighborhood looking for him. All I could think was, "What if someone took him away from me and I never see him again?" I don't think I could have lived. It really makes me to this day feel for those parents who have missing children. How can they go on with their lives not knowing where their child is? Every time I see a missing child ad, I study the face of that child and pray for him or her. It brings tears to my eyes and fresh grief.

When children are small, a mother worries about losing them, and one moment of not knowing where they are is enough to freeze her heart and make her blind to everything else around her. When they grow up to become teenagers, she worries about losing their souls. All those things she taught them can sometimes be thrown back in her face, and the words they use to disagree with her can make her cry with anger and grief over what they could be making of their lives. They want to grow up and be independent, and some of them will say things that break her heart, in their effort to convince her they don't need her anymore. In these times, when she wants to hold them for dear life, she must let go and let them live their lives. Hopefully, with a lot of prayer, they make it through these years without

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