Happy Mother's Day

Honoring our parents is a high calling. I'm thankful for my mom, my step-mom and for my daughter who is a mom. What do we do to celebrate our moms? Take a moment and enjoy this journal entry on Mother's Day weekend as I share some reflections on my mom's. 

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This is Tim D. Tellus. Welcome to the Tim D-Tellus Experiment. Today is a special episode titled Happy Mother's Day. I'm truly honored. My mother is still living. She will be 84 years old this June of 2026. Unfortunately, my mother-in-law passed away. It has been uh a very shocking and sad season because she passed away suddenly after going to the hospital. She came home and only uh lived for another three days. It was really, it was really a sad experience, personally. I had spent more time with my mother-in-law over the past 20 years than my own mom just because of proximity and where she lived. And so this Mother's Day is different, uh, missing one of my moms, if I could use that phrase, and still honoring my mother who's living, but she's not here with me. She's in Thailand on a mission trip, which I would say speaks volumes to me about what matters most to her. And that's, you know, her living a life of service unto others, and she definitely loves adventure and is still out there uh with her husband Ted on a mission trip. So thankful that she's where she wants to be. Uh, personally, though, uh, this weekend, Mother's Day weekend, time at home with my wife is a great gift because I travel a lot, so being home this weekend is super nice. But on the thought of Mother's Day, I have to think about a new mom in my circle of life called my daughter. Yeah, she is a mother and expecting baby number two. So her and her husband will have two children. But uh, baby number one, Myra, is a year and a half, and so I had actually texted my daughter, do you have a Mother's Day wish? And she'll probably not be too happy I say this on the podcast. But she actually responded and said, I wish I could have some of my own blueberries, because all the blueberries I have to share with Myra. Myra loves blueberries. So my granddaughter, who loves blueberries, and my daughter, who loves blueberries, I had an idea. Let's go blueberry picking. Have you ever gone blueberry picking? So I grew up at a campground in Massachusetts where our home was literally the next house to the campground that my grandfather founded. And I would walk the fields and go blueberry picking as a kid. Now, these were just random blueberry bushes out there. They had red raspberries. Those were awesome. Black raspberries. And so I can remember blueberry picking as a kid. And so there's a blueberry picking farm literally less than 15 minutes from my home. And so the three of us went blueberry picking. But what was funny was, you know, Myra didn't really know what was going on until she's walking down the field and having an endless supply of the things she loves. And I think if you could get into some child's mind and wonder what are they thinking, like this is the source of this, like the these plants and these bushes are where I get the blueberry. Pretty cool. Uh, pretty fun. But for Kate, my daughter, uh, she got her wish. So she went home with a bunch of blueberries. Uh, then definitely Myra got her share as well. But on the Mother's Day weekend, I think what's fascinating to think about is the love of a mother, no matter what. Super generous in their love, super generous in their time. My mother-in-law was the best at sitting at a kitchen table and listening to you and answering any questions without judgment and being super concerned, super caring, super available. Uh, and I think too, mothers who love their children from that vantage point of I'm just here for you, they hear well, they listen well, and they care well. And that caring is really from a mind and a heart perspective. It's not just stuff or what they can do for you, it's the fact that it's who they are for you. And so, two moms out there, thank you, thank you, thank you for being so important in our lives. Um, and I'm thankful to have the memory of blueberry picking with my daughter and granddaughter, and honoring my mother who is on a mission trip in Thailand, and also my mother-in-law, whom I'll forever be grateful for and continue to celebrate her. And wherever you are today, I hope you pick up the phone. If you're not with your mom, say hello. If she's not with you any longer, cherish, remember, celebrate endlessly. And maybe there's someone else who has stepped into your life that became that substitute mom or fill-in mom or whatever you want to call it, or maybe the new mom. And honor them. Somebody who stepped into the gap. But thank you for listening. This is a Tim D. Tell us experiment. To me, this is just a journal entry I wanted to drop for Mother's Day weekend. And until next time, continue to live a life of impact right where you are and wherever you go.