If you ask those who have already been down this road, they will tell you that it is a very lonely time. For each of you that will be glowing with smiles, shopping for your mother, and taking her out to your favorite restaurant, there will be those of us whose heart is aching as we remember the last moments spent with our mothers.

If you are missing your mother this Mother's Day, don't keep these emotions bottled up inside you. Write a special essay or poem and dedicate it to the memory of your mother. Share the memories of your special times spent with your mother with family and friends. Pull out old photographs, or look at a videotape of your mother. Every year during the holidays, I light a candle in memory of my mom. Go out and buy yourself a rose bush and plant it in your flower bed. Each year as summer brings back the birth of roses; your mother’s memory will re-bloom in the beauty of those roses.

My mother always loved roses. She and my father would grow them in the garden and all our neighbors would remark on the beauty of those roses. During my mother's illness, I often took her roses clipped from the rose bush in my yard to the nursing home. When winter rolls around I am saddened that my mother is now gone, but just as winter took her, the first spring bloom of those roses brings her home.

So this Mother’s Day, I will delight in the beauty of roses.

This Mother’s Day, allow yourself to feel the love and joy of your children. You are not betraying your mother by the feeling of happiness. Your mother would want you to be happy on this day. Remember her laughter. Grief is normal, and there is no easy way to deal with it. Close your eyes and remember your childhood and the happy times that you spent with your mother. Remember the talks and the wisdom she shared, and even remember the fights that you both had when you didn't quite see eye to eye.

Your mother is forever with you. Though there is an empty chair where she use to sit, in your heart she will forever be seated. This Mother’s Day, rejoice and smile. Your Mother gave you life, and with that life she taught you many things. The one thing she may not have taught you is how to say goodbye when her time on earth was over. Death is just the passage through a door. It is from one room to the next and from this life to eternal life. Right through the clouds is where your mother is. She is in the beauty of roses that bloom.

Remember your mother this Mother’s Day. Mourn in her death, but rejoice in her rebirth.

I will never be able to write anything that matches the love my mother had for me, but may my love for her be found within the wisdom of the words that I share with all of you this Mother's Day.

1-800, I'm calling Heaven’s operator. Please patch through a call to our mothers and wish them a Happy Mother’s Day from their children here on earth.

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