"This is the quote that was on my therapist's coffee cup from Starbuck's series "The Way I See It" #36:

"Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos."

--Alice Randall, Novelist, The Wind Done Gone,
and first black woman to write a No. 1 country song.

So, what are your thoughts and feelings about this quote? Agree, disagree, happy, sad, angry, grateful, thankful, etc...

Or how do you turn chaos in your life into beauty?

When my therapist read this I was shocked given the things that we had been talking about regarding my mother. I thought, "that is true it is not inevitable and what a profound statement about being a mother for it is from chaos that she helps her child to grow." My therapist said, "your mother took beauty and created chaos." Makes me sad and tearful, but he is right.

I am taking what I've been through and utilizing my supports and "tools" along the way to turn chaos into beauty, as it should have been in the first place. Thanks GSTF as being one of those tools. :-)

Thanks for comparing GSTF with that CC and for helping make this place what it is....

**Blushes**

mother sure knows how to make the best out of the worst

I'm blushing...thanks!

I'm glad for you Sarah and congrats on your new volunteer position here!!

LOL!

*smile :-)*

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