Freedom to live again!

It will soon be July 4 and a day when we speak about freedom!  And I think of the person who is most responsible for allowing me a venue to go on with my life, unfettered and put together with scotch tape and bandages!  That was my mother!   I was going thru a painful divorce which had been thrust upon me and I was dying inside.  My mother sent word to me to come home to Charleston.  My siblings were worried and spoke up about how much responsibility she was taking on and she shut them up.   They thought I should stay with my children and she said no --they were children who could not help having divided loyalties!  She told all of her children that she would call when they could visit but she would be the gatekeeper for everyone.  And what a gatekeeper!  When I was bad, no one else knew it or was allowed in!   She stood like a giant for me!

Divided loyalties are superfluous.  People who stand only for you are invaluable to a person deciding, again, that life is worth the living!

Thanks, Mama.