A MOTHER’S ARMS ARE MADE OF
TENDERNESS…
This is story of Mother’s
Sacrifice during the Japan Earthquake. After the Earthquake had subsided, when
the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house, they saw her dead body
through the cracks. But her pose was somehow strange that she knelt on her
knees like a person was worshiping; her body was leaning forward, and her two
hands were supporting by an object. The collapsed house had crashed her back
and her head.
With so
many difficulties, the leader of the rescuer team put his hand through a narrow
gap on the wall to reach the woman’s body. He was hoping that this woman could
be still alive. However, the cold and stiff body told him that she had passed
away for sure. He and the rest of the team left this house and were going to
search the next collapsed building.
For some
reason, the team leader was driven by a compelling force to go back to the
ruined house of the dead woman. Again, he knelt down and used his hand through
the narrow cracks to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he
screamed with excitement,” A child! There is a child!” The whole team worked together; carefully
they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a 3
month old little boy wrapped in a flowery blanket under his mother’s dead body.
Obviously,
the woman had made an ultimate sacrifice for saving her son. When her house was
falling, she used her body to make a cover to protect her son. The little boy
was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up. The medical
doctor came quickly to exam the little boy.
After he
opened the blanket, he saw a cell phone inside the blanket. There was a text
message on the screen. It said,” If you can survive, you must remember that I
love you.” This cell phone was passing around from one hand to another.
Everybody that read the message wept. ” If you can survive, you must remember
that I love you.” Such is the mother’s love for her child!
There may
be many reasons to prove that the story may not be true, but the love of the
mother to a child, beyond doubt, is 100%. A mother is the one who is willing to
sacrifice for the security of her children. As Victor Hugo puts it; “A mother’s arms are made of
tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”