May 9, For Mom
May 9, 2010 by Puna
Filed under Photography, Signatures, Spiritual Sundays
When I was a 17 years old, I borrowed my step-father’s car, a car that I normally don’t drive but because I had just crashed the family car and that car was getting pieced back together in at the shop. My parents must have thought, why not? Could there really be two car incidences in a week?
At that time we lived on a very steep hill and turning into our driveway was tricky, and especially so for a novice driver. In attempting to make the bad turn into the driveway, I ran into a sign that was across the street from my house. I guess I felt like I needed to swing wider for some reason.
The sign snapped and the car got stuck over the protruding lower part…I started to panic and I drove back and forth, back and forth, in order to try to extricate the car from the sign therefore grinding whatever was underneath the car into a pulp.
The noise woke up my parents who came outside to see what all the ruckus was about. This was a sleepy town, a safe neighborhood. Could there be a gang fight right outside the house?
My mother asked me the obvious question. “Why didn’t you come and get us?”
That very question has stuck with me all these years. There’s many answers for that but right now, almost 30 years later, I just want to say I’m sorry for not trusting you enough to ask for your help mom.
Happy Mother’s Day.
” What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among the young lions and reared her cubs.” Ezekial 19: 1-3
Next year I’ll tell you about the time I ran the car into a chain fence before my parents’ Florida vacation.
Posted on Spiritual Sunday and SOOC Saturday.
Happy Mother’s Day, Sweetheart! I Love you!
Have a wonderful Mother’s Day….Sarah
Thanks for sharing the memory, and the valuable lesson you learned from it!
I know your parents forgave you then and continue to love you now, even if it is from their heavenly home. Happy Mother’s Day!
Have a wonderful Mother’s Day!
happy mother’s day – i hope it is a beautiful one.
Exquisite detail!!! Love the color….
This image is breathtaking! Happy Mother’s Day!
Your mom was very optimistic to keep letting you drive! heehee!
This makes me realize how important it is to ask for God’s help as well, with all things.
Blessings,
Ginger
Hope you had a wonderful Mother’s Day.
I remember that! Hope you had a wonderful Mother’s Day!
Love ya
Barb
Interesting experience. Of course it made me think of how we try to get out of “messes” by ourselves when it would be so much wiser to ask God to help. Thank you for sharing. Hope you had a wonderful Mother’s Day.
Charlotte
Quite the memory you shared! Made me smile. Hope you had a wonderful Mother’s Day….God bless.