Maternal Peace
Posted on Nov 9th, 2006
by 
Jamilah
Jamilah
Muhammmad said, "Paradise is at the feet of the mother." I never felt that as strongly as I did this last week.
When my son brought his family for a month long visit he also planned to go see his grandmother in St. Louis. I decided to go too. While he, his wife, and his brothers ran around town I spent a great deal of time with my mother. The best visit ever.
For several years I've struggled with environmental illness. I'm especially sensitive to scents. Before I came, my mother washed beddig and towels with unscented detergent. She did everything she could to make the home environment comfortable and non-toxic.
It went beyond that, though. We had a great time just talking. While shopping. While playing Scrabble. While watching the news.
I came home yesterday evening. And I feel stronger and healthier than I have all year. Probably longer.
I was just reading an article about the mind-body connection. I believe it.
And there is nothing as healing as a mother's love.
When my son brought his family for a month long visit he also planned to go see his grandmother in St. Louis. I decided to go too. While he, his wife, and his brothers ran around town I spent a great deal of time with my mother. The best visit ever.
For several years I've struggled with environmental illness. I'm especially sensitive to scents. Before I came, my mother washed beddig and towels with unscented detergent. She did everything she could to make the home environment comfortable and non-toxic.
It went beyond that, though. We had a great time just talking. While shopping. While playing Scrabble. While watching the news.
I came home yesterday evening. And I feel stronger and healthier than I have all year. Probably longer.
I was just reading an article about the mind-body connection. I believe it.
And there is nothing as healing as a mother's love.
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QAR
August 2008 
Jamilah,
I notice that peace is a recurring theme in your posts. I admire your devotion to it. I've been struggling to find it myself the past two weeks. I was getting all wrapped up in work things and not attending to my meditation. And yesterday I suddenly realized that I was slipping back into that old place of letting the vagaries of life and other people disrupt my sense of peace, dictate my emotions.
I'm glad you had such a good time with your mother. My mother is my best friend and I find comfort and love in our relationship that sustains me.
DiamondLil