This Sunday is Mother’s Day. Many of us will take the time to honor and acknowledge the mother’s in our lives who have influenced us, nurtured us, and inspired us.
Golda Meir was more than the Prime Minister of her country, she was also a mother and grandmother. And these wise words she offered sound more like advice she would have given to her children than to her constituents, wise sentiments that echo what many of us have heard from our own mothers. She said:
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
May the Holy One of Blessing help us find the sparks of possibility that dwell in each of us. May we have the self awareness to recognize them, and may these sparks illuminate our life so that we might find true happiness. May this be God’s will--AMEN.