"Mother" by Betty Ann Beahm Raynor

Mother, I ask myself, “Who are you?”
Your heart is for your children.
You’re so true.
The Bible says, “They shall rise up and call her blessed”.
Mother, can your children depend on you,
to teach them in the ways of the Lord?
Have you taught them love and kindness
and salvations plan and all that the Way & the Truth can afford?
Have you taught them to love the Lord?
If you have, then you will be called blessed
and your children of you can be proud.
That is my Mother. Blessed.

Written sometime between 1974 and 1981