let me cut and paste this e-mail for you all, as it made me stop and think.
Lets all take a minute and hug our loved ones...
Lisa Castilla, MS, OTR/L
The Day After September 11, 2001
Denver, Colorado USA
Dear Mom,
I wanted to write to you yesterday. I drafted lines in my head but never put
them on paper. The images from the media crowded out clarity. Our executive
staff met. Our entire staff met. We talked. We shared. We prayed - several
times. Questions came as to what we should do, how we should respond, what
difference we could make. We wondered. We thought. We prayed some more. And
I decided to sleep on it.
It was a good decision. What I knew in the back of my mind yesterday has
moved to the front of my thoughts today.
We were never meant to mother alone.
When I focus on the images of planes crashing into high-rises, when I hear
the stories of sons calling mothers from hijacked airlines, when I learn of
rescue workers crushed in the debris of the very ruin they were trying to
save. I am convinced more than ever that we need each other. We mothers need
one another. My morning e-mail underlined this truth with words of
encouragement from MOPS groups in El Salvador, New Zealand, and Australia.
"We're praying for your country, and for your moms."
No, we were never meant to mother alone. In the beginning, we were created
to be in relationships, to mother with a husband, but when that isn't
possible, certainly we were meant to mother with God. He hasn't left us and
never will. Behind the carnage, above the flames, he is still present. And
he is still in control.
Think about that. And if you're comfortable, offer a prayer for our nation,
and for the mothers of our country. Then reach out to another mother. Call
an old friend. Leave a note on a neighbor's door. E-mail a coworker. Ask
your sister out to lunch. Connect with the mothers around you who are just
as shattered and concerned about today and tomorrow. In the giving and
receiving of relationship, we draw strength, courage and perspective for
ourselves - and this we can pass on to the children under our care.
We were never meant to mother alone. We need each other now and always.
Because mothering matters,
Elisa Morgan
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Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 1:16 PM
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> Please join me in extending heart-felt sympathy and prayers to the
> victims and their families of this morning's tragedy.
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> Ron
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