[Judith Anne]

1) Speaking as a mother, "love poetry" sounds pretty creepy when directed at a mother by anyone but her husband. Maybe this peculiar inclination is why is seems so easy for Roman Catholics to slavishly call fellow sinners "Father" when the Bible tells us not to. Or to overlook the pederasty among its priests because it perverts what "mother" and "father" and "love" all mean. Blind sublimation is never good.

You're a mother? And you have a problem with your children loving you? You think it's creepy to get a love poem from one of your children? By that, are you talking about INAPPROPRIATE love, or incest? What brought THAT to your mind? Never mind, don't tell me.

A mother's love for her children, and their love for her in return, is one of the most beautiful things in the world. Poems about that love have kept Hallmark and florists in business for quite some time. Children bring their crayoned drawings to their mothers so proudly, "I love you Mommy" and mothers coo over them so happily -- it's joy in the existence each of the other.

A son's love for his mother is beautiful. It IS beautiful! From her, he learns who to marry, from her, he learns how to talk and walk, from her, he learns how to bond with another human being in a non-sexual way. From her, he learns how to receive good gifts from those who love him. From her, he learns what devotion looks like, and how to do it. From her, he learns how to play...

M/i>Same with mothers and daughters -- what a fun, joyful, peaceful, giving relationship! And the bond of a faithful friend whom either can turn to for anything throughout their lives.

A mother's love, and the devotion of her children to her, is the solid foundation for all other loves in life. I fail to see how that could be in any way "creepy" except in the case of severe psychological disturbance.

Nothing we humans do is perfect, BUT our love for Mary, the mother of our Savior, expresses our faith in the ideal love that will be fully and perfectly experienced in Heaven between us, our children, and our parents, the Blessed Virgin and her Son, our Savior, the Holy Spirit and the Father of all, in sublime union.

[MarkBsnr]

Interesting. Mothers hate their children or overwhelmingly separated themselves from them and call it Christianity. Wow. I can see a great and wonderful psychiatric career in the barely tolerated whelps of the Reformed.

No wonder the Reformed are Darwining themselves out of existance, with their homosexual marriages, their birth control, their abortions, and their utter adherence to the zero population growth looney leftists. The Reformed are dying out for the same reasons that the Shakers did. And good riddance to them.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

And you have a problem with your children loving you? You think it's creepy to get a love poem from one of your children? By that, are you talking about INAPPROPRIATE love, or incest? What brought THAT to your mind? Never mind, don't tell me.

Read the reply again, Judith.

Mary is not your mother.

Unless you're really 2,000 years old and happen to be one of Jesus' sisters.

That would explain a lot

[Dr. Eckleburg]

A mother's love, and the devotion of her children to her, is the solid foundation for all other loves in life

What Scripture says a mother's love is more important than the love of God?