For My Children On Mother's Day

My dear people,

let us love one another

since love comes from God

and everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.

                                                                                                         1 John 4:7

From beyond the starry arms of night,

beyond any kind of measured place,

you each came to be in me

the echo of divinity

stitched in lavish grace:

long-unfolding bolt of beauty,

weave of heaven's brimming 

I wrap around my heart forever.

For what I first heard then

of the celestial music of miracles

pulsing through the songs of you, 

still sounds over these 

soul-bright tides

carrying us out 

into deeper waters of love

and birthing light.