Make What You Will of Martyrdom

May 12, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which will be celebrated tomorrow, May 13^th.

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A Mother’s Day poem about mothers and martyrdom:

Make what you will of martyrdom, a mother

Opts for saintly sacrifice of self,

Taking for her centerpiece another,

Having crossed that great, unquiet gulf.

Each must choose to give herself away,

Redeemed alone by love each hard-earned day,

Sensing grace too beautiful to utter.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/7: How Might One Bring to Leaf a Separate Soul

5/8: I See You Working Hard for Me

5/9: Happy Mother’s Day to Childless Mothers

5/10: To the Mothers of Children Who Never Were Children

5/11: Hope Is in the Hollow of Your Heart

5/12: Make What You Will of Martyrdom