A Mother’s Love – Sunday, May 10, 1981
Political unrest, wars and rumors of wars, and the continuing upsurge in crime are indications that all is not well in human society. Turmoil and conflict seem to be the earmarks of our age.
Much of the solution to these dilemmas, however, will not be found within the chambers of the world’s parliaments, nor in the laboratories of science, Our hope for a more peaceful world lies at the spring of human affection and goodwill—a mother’s heart.
It is there, surrounded by the warmth of a mother’s love that a child first finds a sense of belonging. A mother’s presence is the first and most enduring evidence that there is love in the world, The impressions implanted by her influence the course of life through this existence and beyond.
Thus, it is not necessary in order to honor mothers that we coin new phrases or express new thoughts. That which has been expressed in the past is sufficient. For the single unchanged truth in this modern world of motion and complexity is the ever constant and unconditional nature of a mother’s love.
A mother is the one fountain of love which never diminishes or turns bitter. Regardless of our failures, in spite of our weaknesses and doubts, whatever the sin or indiscretion, no matter what others may think of us—a mother still loves on.
There is no distance, in space or time, which can separate us from the lullabies and caresses of childhood. The baby is soon the adolescent, the adolescent soon the adult. Too soon, the child is grown. And the playthings of youth are carefully put away, The girl of ringlets and giggles is now the wife, the mother; the boy of baseball and engines is now the husband, the father.
But to our mother, we will always be her children. Her hopes and fears for us remain; the pride at our accomplishments, the empathy with our defeats.
Without condition, without compensation, her love endures, and will endure as long as days are without number, as long as she remains—a mother .
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May 10, 1981
Broadcast Number 2,699