Mother - on earth, the ultimate source, the bedrock
Of our existence. She is the soil one germinates in,
The inner sun and rain one flowers to.
Her voice is the first ever heard. She is the moon that
Summons and dismisses the tides of life, the pitch pipe
That sets the melodic base, the rhythm that sets the beat.
- Joe Wheeler
from Heart to Heart Stories for Moms (Tyndale and Focus on the Family)
