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Sunday, May 11, 2008

A Happy Mother's Day and Sharing From My Uncle As Posted On thedrumonline@yahoo.com

Very seldom do I share personal emails but I know David would not mind my sharing this special message. If you have no idea who David Talbert is I invite you to visit his website at the end of this email. No Dr. Grant I'm not raising hell tonight just sharing something beautiful.

I wish a very Happy Mother's Day to all women that may read this, whether mothers or not, I know you've shared the pain and burdens from others you've known and loved and hope you too share this with your friends as well.

Happy Mother's Day!
Jim Robinson


A Mother's Love...
May 9, 2008
DET & Mother What's up Jimmy,

Like so many of us raised by a single mom, I used to always thank my mom for being the best mom and dad a son could ask for. Having gotten a little older...I realize that my blessing was not so much that she took the place of a father, but that she loomed so large as a mother. So, this year, unlike any other year before... I Thank God for my mother and for mother's like her. Women of strength and courage. Women that could pray the heavens into you, or beat the hell out of you. Women that never backed down and despite the obvious obstacles and challenges, always found a way to make it through another day. Because of the sacrifices she made, she will always be my first love. My hero. My friend.

Below, I thought I'd share with you the poem I wrote my mother for her 60th Birthday. I hope you enjoy it.

Happy Mother's Day to my Mother, Diane Harris, and all the mothers around the world!

-David E. Talbert


Who Cries The Tears


Who cries the tears
Dares access the years
Of a woman whose course she stayed it
A Silent prayer she prayed it
And against all odds she made it
Who Cries The Tears?


Who wipes the face of a woman whose tears were once
the only drink she could afford?
Who held her hand when outstretched she only felt the Lord's?
Who Cries the tears?


Who stood when all were sure she'd fall?
I just need a little help, she said, that's all
Who spread the wings for a princess
Soaring to heights unknown?
When conventional wisdom claimed she'd never make it all alone


Who rubs the back of a Queen whose load was
More than most would bear?
Who even takes the time to give a care?


It's sometimes all that I can do to withstand tears of
Niagara proportions...
Because to me it's clear, free of wonder or distortion.
For whatever purpose for the point you'd make...
Whatever the reason for the road you'd take...
Thank God you took it.
Over time every hurdle you'd over look it.


And now your course you stayed it
Even when it got hard still that prayer you prayed it
And because the Word of God you obeyed it
You can truly say, I've made it.


Still dear...
A handful of the ones you love still near
And after sixty years
And sixty times sixty tears
I thank God... you're still here.


Who Cries the tears?

David E. Talbert

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Wednesday, May 07, 2008






HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!






Before I was a Mom
I never tripped over toys or forgot words to a lullaby.
I didn't worry whether or not my plants were poisonous.
I never thought about immunizations.
Before I was a Mom -
I had never been puked on.
Pooped on.
Chewed on.
Peed on.
I had complete control of my mind and my thoughts.
I slept all night.
Before I was a Mom
I never held down a screaming child so doctors could do tests.
Or give shots.
I never looked into teary eyes and cried.
I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin.
I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep.
Before I was a Mom
I never held a sleeping baby just because I didn't want to put him down.
I never felt my heart break into a million pieces when I couldn't stop the hurt.
I never knew that something so small could affect my life so much.
I never knew that I could love someone so much.
I never knew I would love being a Mom.
Before I was a Mom -
I didn't know the feeling of having my heart outside my body.
I didn't know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby.
I didn't know that bond between a mother and her child.
I didn't know that something so small could make me feel so important and happy.
Before I was a Mom -
I had never gotten up in the middle of the night every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay.
I had never known the warmth, the joy, the love, the heartache,
the wonderment or the satisfaction of being a Mom.
I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much, before I was a Mom.
Send this to someone who you think is a special Mom.
I just did!