A little boy asked his mother, " Why are you crying?" "Because I'm a woman",
she told him. " I don't understand", he said. His mum just hugged him and said,
" And you never will"..
Later the little boy asked his father, " Why does mother seem to cry for no
reason?" " All women cry for no reason" was all his dad could say.
The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry.
Finally he put in a call to God; when God got on the phone, the man said, "
God, why women cry so easily?"
God said, "When I made women she had to be special. I made her shoulders
strong enough to carry the weight of the world; yet, gentle enough to give
comfort.
I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many
times come from her children.
I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives
up and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining.
I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all
circumstances, even when her child has hurt them very badly.
This same sensitivity helps her make a child's boo hoo feel better and shares
in their teenagers' anxieties and fears.
I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her
from his rib to protect his heart.
I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but
sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfaltering.
And finally I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use
whenever it is needed. The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears,
the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a
woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the
place where love resides."
Every woman is beautiful. |
I loved this. And, I needed to read this. Its very uplifting because as a woman, especially a black woman we go through a lot.
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