20090510

Dear darlingest Miyang,

Today is Mother's Day, my darlingest dear - a day to celebrate the love of our mothers and the bittersweet joy of the calling to motherhood.

In a way, days like these are good, my love, because if it serves to establish and to re-establish within our own common remembrances, the foundation upon which the significant calling that every mother, in all times and in all places, must individually and personally respond to with the utmost surrender of the self is collectively built upon which is the transmission of life, human life - or at least its corporal presence in exile time - upon this, our inhabited earth, then this day would not be left without its right cause.

And human life (across all our generations in exile time bound up as one lineage whole with and in all its manifold Providential callings and necessary expressions of being) as the divinely mandated keeper to all of the life of lower creation (and of each other under God) and therefore, the central reality that sustains the creative ideal of our one common Creator in the truth that in its substance (which in its every form is a timeless and unseen reality - unitive, ascendant and transcendental) potently preserves all of the good, its presence, its purpose and its promise, in all of visible creation and this, my loveliest love, amidst the tides of exile time and the shedding away of former things.

In this way, motherhood is a bridge that in her faithfully and perseveringly extending from past into present, in her calling to serve God by her fostering of the generations of life, preserves the life of the one family of the nations of Mankind and the common destiny of our human race.

All our communities would be left barren and bereft of promise, all our labors empty and without their necessary longing for neither would our lineages survive nor our native hopes remain intact from the tumultuous passage from time into the timeless without the fidelity of all our mothers.

It is sad to see, these days, a general spiritual malaise that eats away at the foundation reality of our families. Indeed, there are places amidst our own humanity these days where motherhood is more or less seen as a burden rather than a sublime dignity.

It would not serve our poor Mankind to see these things be shed like the darkness is shed, indeed, it would be quite impossible for this to happen for the good exists to fulfill its own intended purpose and in God's own time and as such the reality of the calling to motherhood itself will re-affirm its rightful place in the original order of things because evil can never prevail against it.

This universal aspect of the triumph of motherhood wrought by the timeless presence of our Lady, the Mother of Suffering Humanity, in my heart of hearts and throughout our history, I speak of here, my love, in order to stir the hearts of all the nations of our needful Mankind unto a remembrance of that undeniable reality that exists between mothers and their children and to particularly re-affirm in each of those of us who have recourse to our Lady that no evil can ever prevail against the love that exists through the Love of our LORD to prevail against all things - that we may hope again the hope of little children, her little ones.

And where days like these are celebrated not in their timeless essence but in their passing away into other days, it does not serve us well. Because for all our mothers, in time and from always to always in eternity, above all, our Lady, every day is Mother's day.
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This is what went to post on our main blog, my loveliest love:

Our family, my love, are the friends God chose for us.

Our friends are those whom we chose to complete in ourselves what our LORD has begun in our family.

And in heaven and at the beginning of all things new, we shall all be perfected in these friendships so we must learn to hold dear to them well these days.

Today is Mother's day.

It is the day we celebrate and remember the friendship of our mothers.

So a very happy Mother's day to my own mother and to all our mothers.
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Man, it must be said, as the chosen protector of Woman, and fatherhood as the beginning of that free and human choice that when it is blessed by the grace of our LORD primarily in sacramental marriage is consummated in motherhood and the bearing of children also have a very vital and quite significant responsibility to obtain in God for the good of the human family and therefore, for the common good of human community which is the good of our nations.

But that discussion will have to wait till next month, Father's day, my love.

You know, I've been looking at greeting card companies and the concept of greeting cards in general, my loveliest love, and am presently developing our evolving ideas on Pawprints along these lines at the moment.

I love you, my love - my darlingest Annelies Marie.

Always to always,

Pusing

P.S.

Reminder to me, my love: Tomorrow (or starting tomorrow), we shall work on a prayer for the election season here in the Philippines (I shall pray for it at Holy Mass today) and also we shall (yes, both of us, my loveliest love - and don't you sigh, my darlingest Yang-yang) delve into my high school past and my formative years here in my native Philippines from as far back as I can remember as an exercise in appreciation and gratitude for the good things that I have received and also lessons learned in the graces (quite numerous, I know) that I have so sorely missed throughout the years - this leads of course, to remembrance and from remembrance - future plans.