My mom, Lois Hodges, has such a positive attitude. She loves bringing people together in unity and love. One way she’s always done that is with her in-law
children. She came up with a different word for them: “in-love”s. Son-in-love, instead of son-in-law.
Today she was telling me about Jesus on the Cross entrusting the Disciple John with the care of His mother. “When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple
whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, ‘Woman, behold, your son!’ Then He said to the disciple, ‘Behold, your mother!’ And from that
hour the disciple took her into his own home.”
My mom explained that she wanted to tell my husband, David, that if Jesus can do that with those who aren’t blood, then she can claim that she is David’s
mother and he is her son, too.
I am crying as I write this because my husband David lost his mother when he was ten years old. My mother has not only accepted my husband David, but loved
him in innumerable ways –which is one way she has poured out her love to me.
I am so very blessed to have the mom I have. Happy Mother’s Day mom.
– Edith Van Sandt (nee Hodges).
