Inspiring Words on Motherhood
One of my friends, Amy, sent me an email entitled “Why Women Cry”. It caught my attention to read on although I don’t think I cry a lot. People keep asking me why I always smile, instead. Having read the email, I found it is about neither “feminism” (fight for the right of women), nor “protectism” (beg for sympathy for women). I think it is about parenting and motherhood, about behavior of women so different, about how a mother takes care of her family following her innate motherly love. That’s why I post it here:
A little boy asked his mother, “Why are you crying?” “Because I’m a woman,” she told him.
“I don’t understand,” he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, “And you never will.”
Later the little boy asked his father, “Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?”
“All women cry for no reason,” was all his dad could say.
The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry.
Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on the phone, he asked, “God, why do women cry so easily?”
God said:
“When I made the woman she had to be special.
I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world,
yet gentle enough to give comfort.I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children.
I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining.
I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly.
I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.
I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly.
And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed.”
“You see my son,” said God, “the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides.”
Please send this to five beautiful women you know today. If you do, something good will happen - You will boost another woman’s self-esteem!
You can also send this to men who would really like to know the value of a woman and why she is so different from others.
May 9th, 2006 at 8:40 am
[…] This afternoon I received an email from Amy again. She forwarded me a five-minute interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, author of “The Purpose Driven Life” that sold 15 million copies and made him very wealthy. The past year has been his greatest year but also the toughest as his wife, Kay, had got cancer. Rick shared: I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you got to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don’t believe that anymore. Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it’s kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life. No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on. And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for. You can focus on your purposes, or……. you can focus on your problems. […]