In My Daughter's Eyes
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| Please note that you can actually see my reflection in my daughter's eye. |
I took the above picture of my reflection in my daughter's eye almost 2 years ago for a photography project. My mom simply LOVED it when she saw it. Shortly after I took it, mom asked if maybe she and I could do one with her reflection in my eye. Then, combine both pictures into one so that we would have a couple generations together. I really liked her idea, but didn't do it immediately because we both had other things to do. Life continued getting in the way. We never made the time to create that picture. Now I no longer have the opportunity to make that beautiful idea she had a reality because she's no longer on this earth. It breaks my heart every time I think that she's gone. However, I was reflecting on this picture and the sentiment that we truly leave traces of ourselves in our children.
Shortly after she passed, I was visiting my home church (my parents have attended there for about 40 years). I made some comments in Sunday School, and talked to a few people. One of the ladies came up to me after church was over and said, "I've been watching you today and never realized how much you act like your mom." I learned who I was and what I should be at the hands of a great mentor, my mother.
In Proverbs 22:6 we read, "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." My mother trained me well to have a testimony of Jesus Christ. She showed me by example what a Christ-like life truly is. She loved many and taught much. She was a wonderful person to model how my life should be. I am grateful to have been so blessed to call that extraordinary woman my mother.
