English 101

A Patience Mother

Imagine that you are in a third world country with no education, no job, no money, and the only way to provide for your family is to farm. At the same time, you have to raise twelve kids, mostly on your own without any help from relatives or family member while your husband is in the war. How will you handle this situation and do you think you would have the strength to go on?

Well, in Proverbs 31, from the Bible, gives us a picture of a Wife of Noble Character. I believe that this woman has these characteristics that this passage is referring to. I will let you know about two ways of which I see that this person has the strongest.

This person is Xae Moua. I believe that she is a patience mother because she had raised twelve kids by herself and had no help from other family members. She taught her kids to know how to work step by step that started from the oldest to youngest kids. She had faith that her kids could help each other when they grow up. She used her patience to be very good actions that not just for a good mother but stand for a nice father to her kids too. She loved and took good care for her kids and made them feel like not without a father during war time. She encouraged her kids by supporting them in any way that she can.

Besides patience, Xae Moua is also a very hard working person who stayed up late and waked up early everyday to provide for her family. She has been working for her family ever since she got to marry to her husband. She worked hard to get enough food to feed her family in times of need during the war back in Laos when her husband was in the war. By both day and night, she took cared all of her kids and work very hard to get food for her family, by the way sometime she didn’t eat at all, but she didn’t think about herself, just wish to get enough for her kids. If anything was left, then she will eat later after her kids were done.

You may wonder who this person is. This character is my Mom, whom has raised 12 kids, including me and has been there all the way until today. She may not be educated like some parents out there and does not speak English like many of us, but she has the heart of an angel and is always looking out for her family.

But on July first of 2010, was a very bad day for my mom because my dad was passed away. She made herself like nothing happed at all, because she didn’t want to show us that she was very struggle with that day and everything at the funeral. Even, I don’t very like the way she showed for us. But I think and believe that the way she did because she loves us. At all my life until now, I see that she is very patience and her patience can make, we feel not without a father. By loving us, she always made a smile face for the day and night. Even that my father had passed away my mom still have the patience to take care us, and she doesn’t leave us along when we have a problem.