Hello God. It's me, Mara

You know, Lord, sometimes one needs a little help doing some things; then along came Charles S. Ross with a “thought” about Mothers.

“Old Mothers” by Charles S. Ross: “I love old mothers — mothers with white hair and kindly eyes, and lips grown softly sweet with murmured blessings over sleeping babes. There is a something in their quiet grace that speaks the calm of Sabbath afternoons; a knowledge in their deep, unfaltering eyes that far outreaches all philosophy. Time, with caressing touch, about them weaves the silver-threaded fairy shawl of age, while all the echoes of forgotten songs seem...