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When I look back, I understand that I\u2019d been awful to my mother all afternoon. Somewhere in the years that followed, I learned a term for what had happened that day. Misplaced anger. I\u2019d taken all the hurt and frustration from my junior high day and hurled them at my mom.<\/span><\/p>\n

It had been, by 12-year-old girl standards, a brutal day. My best friend Mary ditched me at lunchtime to hang with a cool girl. In P.E. class, we were lined up and forced to square dance with a member of the opposite sex. My assigned partner balked at my nervous, wet palms and, for the rest of the morning, called me \u201cTrout.\u201d We\u2019d had a history test in homeroom, and though I\u2019d studied, my memory bank was plum empty for facts on the French and Indian War.<\/p>\n

And I had to ride the bus home.<\/p>\n

Perfectly terrible. Every ounce of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey, how was your day?\u201d chirped Mom as I walked through the front door and dropped my backpack. She smiled and went back to tying my little sister\u2019s shoe. \u201cThere are cookies on the counter.\u201d<\/p>\n

I sulked my way to the kitchen to find peanut butter cookies. The kind that were crisscrossed with the tines of a fork.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeesh, Mom,\u201d I\u2019d said. \u201cCouldn\u2019t you have made chocolate chip?\u201d<\/p>\n

Later in the evening, when Mom pulled baked chicken from the oven, I\u2019d complained, too. Dad was working the three-to-eleven shift, and sometimes when he worked we had something simple like pizza. \u201cChicken and vegetables,\u201d I\u2019d growled. \u201cWhy can\u2019t we ever have anything good?\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE: A PARENT\u2019S JOY<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

My surliness continued. Mom had been patient. Kind. But by the time bedtime rolled around, she and I had a shouting match in our long, dark hall. I still remember her pink toes poking out from under her blue bathrobe. Her hair was swept back in a ponytail and anger flushed her freckled face.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you\u2019d better get to bed,\u201d she\u2019d said. \u201cYou can start again tomorrow. But I\u2019m telling you, I\u2019ll be talking with your father tonight.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d trounced off, bare feet slapping linoleum, and flopped on my bed. After a long while, I slipped under the covers, but I couldn\u2019t sleep. Something unexpected met me in the darkness.<\/p>\n

Regret.<\/p>\n

Sorrow.<\/p>\n

Sadness.<\/p>\n

Why had I treated Mom like that? If I had only been willing to share, she would\u2019ve pulled a chair close, looked into my eyes and listened. But instead I\u2019d let her become my verbal punching bag. Surely a hefty consequence would follow.<\/p>\n

Sleep didn\u2019t come, and somewhere near midnight I heard a creak in the hallway. Was it Dad coming to talk with me? By then, remorse had brought a gentle flow of tears. I wiped them away in the darkness, but before long the door opened and my room was filled with soft light.<\/p>\n

It was Mom.<\/p>\n

She sat on my bed and leaned close. \u201cWhy don\u2019t you come down to the kitchen?\u201d she said. Her voice was a whisper and a tendril of her long, blond hair brushed over my cheek.<\/p>\n

I pulled my robe from the back of my desk chair and followed her down the long hall. And what I found in the kitchen is something I\u2019d never forget.<\/p>\n

A table for two.<\/p>\n

Two burgers sizzled on the griddle, newly covered with thick slices of cheese. Two milkshakes in tall, frosty glasses.<\/p>\n

I stood, amazed, while Mom pulled a cookie sheet of fries from the oven.<\/p>\n

I deserved a consequence. A punishment.<\/p>\n

But Mom met me with grace.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so sorry,\u201d I said. \u201cPlease forgive me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI will,\u201d she said. \u201cI love you, Shawnie. I understand what it\u2019s like to be in between a woman and a girl. It can be a tough place.\u201d She held me close. I cried cleansing tears. After a few minutes, Mom and I sat down.<\/p>\n

We talked half the night, sharing cheeseburgers, sharing fries, and sharing hearts.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know when I\u2019d experienced such love. When I think back, I can still remember the quiet of darkness broken by our voices, the delicious goodness of having my mom all to myself, the way her green eyes met mine with compassion and forgiveness.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a thing in the world like the capacity of a parent to love a child.<\/p>\n

Does it remind you, a little, of the Lord\u2019s kind of love?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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