There are times when only a mother's love

Can understand our tears

Can soothe our disappointments

And calm all of our fears

There are times when only a mother's love

Can share the joy we feel

When something we've dreamed about

Quite suddenly is real

There are times when only a mother's faith

Can help us on life's way

And inspire in us the confidence

We need from day to day

For a mother's heart and a mother's faith

And a mother's steadfast love

Were fashioned by the Angels

And sent from God above

~ Author Unknown ~

A Mother's love is something
that no one can explain

It is made of deep devotion
And sacrifice and pain

It is endless and unselfish
and enduring, come what may

For nothing can destroy it
Or take the love away

It is patient and forgiving
When all others are forsaking

And it never fails or falters
Even though the heart is breaking

It believes beyond believing
When the world around condemns

And it glows with all the beauty
Of the rarest, brightest gems

It is far beyond defining
It defies all explanation

And it still remains a secret
Like the mysteries of creation

A many splendored miracle
Man cannot understand

And another wondrous evidence
Of God's tender, guiding Hand.

~ Helen Steiner Rice ~

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out
But it catches fire again every time a child is born.

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God.
Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth
For she has held a star.

~ Larry Barretto ~

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

~ Henry Ward Beecher ~