{"id":765,"date":"2010-12-10T23:36:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T03:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/?p=765"},"modified":"2011-08-19T21:53:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T01:53:28","slug":"have-i-told-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/2010\/12\/have-i-told-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Have I Told You That I Love You Yet Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It had been a pretty long time since I really sat and thought about my mother.\u00a0 It has been quite a few years since she passed away, and in all the busyness of life in the 21st<\/sup> century\u2026 well there is just not near enough time for quiet reflection anymore.<\/h3>\n

\"Mom<\/a>I have to thank my niece, Marcia, for leaving me a simple phone message that brought back a flood of memories that made me just STOP to enjoy a beautiful memory that has now been in the back of my mind for days. Yes, THANK YOU Marcia, I love you too, and you will never know just how much this has meant to me.<\/span><\/h3>\n

When I was a baby, back before I have any memories at all, I had a rash that would not go away.\u00a0 As it was told to me years later, the doctor told my mother that maybe I just did not feel loved.\u00a0 My mother began, and continued for as long as I lived at home, at least once a day to ask me, \u201cHave I told you that I love you yet today?\u201d It was often followed by, \u201cWell I do!\u201d\u00a0 Sometimes she would just look at me and say “yet today?” and I knew exactly what she meant.<\/h3>\n

It was on the last day of Hanukkah this year, that Marcia was thinking of her grandmother, and left me a voicemail \u201cHave I told you that I love you yet today?\u201d\u00a0 No one had asked me that for so long that I had completely forgotten I had ever heard it at all, and hearing those words again has brought the warmth of my mother\u2019s love with them.\u00a0 It has also reminded me just how much I miss her.<\/h3>\n

\"Mom<\/a><\/h3>\n

It is a poignant reminder that when all is said and done, it is the littlest things that matter the most, and that an expression of true love holds the essence of the love within it long after the words are spoken.\u00a0 And so I close this tribute to my mother with a few verses from my favorite poet\u2026<\/h3>\n
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\u201cAll of these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart,<\/h3>\n

\"Mom<\/a><\/h3>\n

and in that knowledge become a fragment of life\u2019s heart.<\/h3>\n

But if in your fear you would seek only love\u2019s peace and love\u2019s pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love\u2019s threshing floor,<\/h3>\n

Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter,<\/h3>\n

And weep, but not all of your tears.\u201d \u00a0Kahlil Gibran<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Have I told you that I love you yet today?\u00a0 Well I do!<\/h3>\n

Blessings & Adventure,<\/h3>\n

Lynn “lynnibug” Rios<\/h3>\n

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