A true mother thinks day and night about the well-being of her children. She is the first to praise and comfort them and is also the first to protect them when she senses danger. It is she who has carried them and borne the pains of pregnancy and childbirth, and it is she who now continues to carry them in her heart. Her intuition is often clearer than her husband’s, and she will not let him make light of her concerns or reassure her too easily. She will also be the first to turn to God on a child’s behalf. Perhaps that is what inspired the old Jewish saying, “God could not be everywhere at once, so he gave each child a mother.”
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