Ordinary Story, Outstanding Glory.

When I was child, I didn’t like reading book, much less lesson books, but I like the stories. I like the stories wherever it was written. In a book or in a kids magazine, even my Mom often told me stories when I was about to sleep and my father didn’t forget to tell me, my cousin, and my friend stories, fable stories after studying together. It was just simple stories, a reindeer, lion, or even a cat. But they fully consisted of moral value that we could implement in our daily life, whether you realized it or not. It is still sticking in my head the story about ‘The Lion King’. My Dad portrayed the lion as the strongest and the wisest animal because it was well-known as The King of the Jungle. Until now, I always like Lion, and I’m insanely desired to look after it as a pet. Damn, it is ridiculous, and totally impossible. Haha

I remember it was Thursday when my Mom gave a kid magazine. It was the most popular kid magazine at that time. Exactly, I was so happy that I always read many times, again and again. I never felt that I was bored at those stories provided. One story that was nominated as the most exciting story was about the sacrifice of a mother. It was so touchy. Do you want to know the story? I will tell you here.

--Once upon a time there were two daughters of a magnificent mom. They lived in a quite and peaceful village. Everyday, their mom always asked them to do some housework things, like washing clothes and dishes in the edge of the river.
They always got mad whenever Mom asked them to do that. They didn’t understand why their mom always asked them to do that. They thought that their mom was cruel.

Therefore, they decided to find a ‘new’ mom who could take care of them more. They asked the sun, “Sun, would you like to be our mom?” The sun replied, “I cannot be you mom. I don’t have any power if the cloud covers me, so asked the cloud maybe she can be you mom.” So they asked the cloud who began to cover the sun. “Would like to be our mom, cloud?”. The cloud ignored, “No, I cannot be your mom. I’m not as strong as the sun said. I’m often blown by the wind. Ask the wind, she is very strong and she moves very fast from north to south, from east to west.” “Ooh..” said the daughters helplessly. Suddenly, there was a wind which blew and faded the cloud. “See, how strong and fast the wind is. You’d better ask her!”

They took their chance to ask the wind to be their mom. “Wind, I hope you can be our mom. I have asked sun and cloud but they said that they aren’t as strong as you. So, please, be our mom.” The wind boasted, “Hey little girls, I admit that I’m stronger than the sun and cloud. Unfortunately, there is something that I can’t conquer. She is very strong. The strength cannot be neglected.” Who is it?”, asked the daughter curiously. “Mountain.” Replied the wind briefly. “The body is so strong that I can’t move it.” The wind explained. So the daughters walked quite far to ask the powerful mountain. “Hello, mountain. We have been asked the sun, cloud, and wind to be our mother but none of them wants to be our mom. They said that your strength is real and we don’t have any idea who to ask for anymore.” Said one daughter. “I’m not as strong as they said. They are all wrong.” Said the mountain. The daughter began to give up. “There is someone who is stronger than me. She always step her foot on my body.”, explained the mountain wisely. “Tell us, tell us!” another daughter inquired. “Wait, she always passes my body in the afternoon like this. Can you hear her foot step?” See, she is stronger than me so you’d better asked her!”

The daughters waited and saw who came from that side of mountain’s body. Closer and closer. It seemed that they know that kind of sound. Apparently, the one who is the strongest from all is their own mom. They directly hugged their mom and cried happily. “Where have you been? I’m looking for you. Come on let’s go home. I’ve bought new clothes for you all” said the mom. How happy they were. They’ve just realized that they had someone who always took care of them all the time. Mom. They promised that they would never let their mom down again--

That’s a bit about an ordinary but outstanding story. The story that I always remember.
Love your mom and what God gives to you.