Bending Angel

God – At Your Table today please tell my mother, Lucile, Happy Mother’s Day for me.

From Your cosmic womb You used her as Your vessel to bring me into the world to know beauty, love, the power of prayer and You.

Please let Mother know that I thought she was the most beautiful mom a son could ever have. But, her beauty was not just skin deep. Her beauty radiated from the well of her personhood and abiding faith in You.

Before I had polio as a little boy, Mother taught me The Lord’s Prayer. Every evening at bedtime I knelt beside her and we said together the words of this prayer to You.

At age six, I left our home and was paralyzed from the neck down. Though I could no longer kneel at home next to Mother, I could still pray and say the Lord’s Prayer every night for a year at the hospital.

Lord, on this Mother’s Day, I give thanks to You for a mother like her. For in Mom’s life and care, I knew and received Your unconditional love for me.

Today, Mother is with You. I cannot hold her in my arms as I wish I could. But, I rejoice in knowing that she is celebrating another Mother’s Day with You and her own mother in the glory of Your everlasting light and love. Amen

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Jack H. Emmott is a Senior Counsel of Gray, Reed & McGraw, LLP, a 145-lawyer full service firm in Houston, Dallas and Waco, Texas, a Board-Certified Family Law and Master Credentialed Collaborative Law Professional Divorce Attorney, Mediator, Author, Entrepreneur and Inspirational Speaker. For more information about Jack or his latest book, Bending Angels: Living Messengers of God’s Love, go to the Bending Angel website.

Prayer in Thanksgiving for the Promise of Spring – March 11, 2018

Dear God – As I drove out of Spring Valley Village to start our family Spring Break vacation, I saw that Spring had broken from the Earth. Following the hardship of Harvey and the dark and dreary cold days which followed, the promise of new life was evident in the magnificent blossoms around me.

Behind the wheel, my thoughts centered on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Between death and loss. Between ashes in the earth and hope and life eternal.

I reflected on the death of my mother Lucile, five years ago this month and how she was such an exquisitely beautiful flower in Your Kingdom. I grieved for the loss of her in the physical. But, I knew that the love in her for me lives forever now in You and the Holy Spirit.

I give thanks to You for the promise of Spring–for in the cascading of bridal veil, in the glory of the blossoming red buds, azaleas, mountain laurel, gardenias, daffodils, and the Katy Road rose along Tres Palacios Bay. In the sweet smell of wisteria blooms, I am reminded that life goes on.

Although every human life ends, there is a spring, a holy well. A resting place in which I too will one-day flower forever in the Glory of Your eternal love. Amen

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Jack H. Emmott is a Senior Counsel of Gray, Reed & McGraw, LLP, a 120-lawyer full service firm in Houston, Texas, a Board-Certified Family Law and Master Credentialed Collaborative Law Professional Divorce Attorney, Mediator, Author, Entrepreneur and Inspirational Speaker. For more information about Jack or his latest book, Bending Angels: Living Messengers of God’s Love, go to BendingAngel.com.