With Mother’s Day this weekend, various community members are sharing reflections and memories of their mothers. First up, Jesey Darwin, who works for the Loretto Sisters.
Jesey Darwin is the mother of three awesome young-adult children and currently works as an Accounting and Banking Associate for the Loretto Sisters. She describes herself as “a lifelong learner to listen when God is speaking.”
The last Sunday before leaving for Canada, I took a walk with my mom. While we cherished our time together, she then shared her reflection on her life journey. She told me that, after many years, she could now accept the fact that she had to face: my father passed away at a young age, leaving her and their four school-age children behind. She had to adjust her life from a home-stay mom to a working mom as well as responsible to be a mother and a father at the same time.
While we were still walking, she continued sharing her life experience about keep living our life diligently rather than asking why bad or difficult things happened in our life. That really makes sense when I see with my own eyes how my mom has been living her daily life, raising her four children by herself. Well, actually, not by herself but with the Lord that she trusts wholeheartedly. She believes that the Lord has the best plan in her life.
I remember that her small prayer book and her bible are crumpled because she reads them regularly and gets strength from the prayer and the Word of God, especially in turbulent times such as facing her children’s rebellious time. When having difficult times, her “go to” is kneeling in front of the Lord. Her close best friend is the Lord that she could pour out her deepest feelings. She is convinced that it takes grace to remain kind in a cruel situation and our heart tells us big things in a little way so we need to listen carefully.
Her motto is ‘regardless of the problems in this life and the hardships you face, do not let them shake your heart, but have faith in Christ”.
A woman I have been admiring for my whole life. She is my mother!
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