The (Mother’s Day) Sunday Series (26), with Mark Brodinsky

A special video, created for a special lady.

This is always a special day, perhaps Hallmark’s crowning achievement in creating a day, which could easily be a national holiday, to honor the important women in your life. And if this Sunday Series is all about courage, hope and inspiration (and it is), you’d be hard pressed to find someone who exhibits more of all three than the lady who is my wife.

Actually, for the past week I’ve presented several posts about moms, one post centered around what it’s like to take on the role and another blog post with some of the best quotes regarding life’s most important “job”. Today is a great day to recognize your own and the one who is your bride, the mother of your children. Today, among the billions of women out there, it’s time to celebrate my own, my wife Debbie.

A few months back I found this song. And if you don’t want to read, I’m not going to bury the lead, you can skip to the montage I asked my oldest daughter Sophie to create for me and for which we posted a link, (down below), on You Tube. I think this song, more than any other, sums up the way I and my girls feel about Debbie.

The song is called, Close Your Eyes, from Michael Buble’. I’ve done blog posts about songs and music before, even breaking down the meaning of the lyrics. For today’s Sunday Series, it’s worth taking a brief look at the words and why I decided to ask Sophie to create the music video.

Close your eyes
Let me tell you all the reasons why
think you’re one of a kind.

It goes without saying Debbie, to know you is to love you, as so many do and to be part of your life every day is to understand truly how special you are, one of a kind.

Here’s to you
The one that always pulls us through
Always do what you’ve gotta do
You’re one of a kind
Thank G-d you’re mine.

There’s no one in my life who does more. It is you who always “pulls us through” no matter what, your conviction, devotion and attention to the details of life for the girls and myself is a wonder to behold.

You’re an angel dressed in armor
You’re the fair in every fight
You’re my life and my safe harbor
Where the sun sets every night
And if my love is blind
I don’t want to see the light.

My safe harbor… there’s never a time during the rollercoaster of any day that I don’t think about how great it will be to go home… and be with you and the girls. It’s the light at the end of every tunnel.

It’s your beauty that betrays you
Your smile gives you away.
Cause you’re made of strength and mercy
And my soul is yours to save
I know this much is true
When my world was dark and blue
I know the only one who rescued me was you.

This weekend, yesterday, May 10th to be exact, marks one more milestone, your comeback from breast cancer, 2-years cancer-free. It was you, all you, who got us through it. When I felt low, I need only look to you, to know in the end it would all be OK. Because of you there’s now a book and a blog and you helped to re-awaken the dormant behemoth of creativity, love and inspiration inside of me I want to share with the world. Because of you I have launched on a journey of personal growth so powerful I am only scratching the surface of what is possible for me, for you, for our family, for so many others. You rescued me.

Close your eyes
Let me tell you all the reasons why
You’re never gonna have to cry
Because you’re one of a kind.
Yeah, here’s to you
The one that always pulls us through
You always do what you gotta do babe
Because you’re one of a kind.

When your love pours down on me
I know I’m finally free
So I tell you gratefully
Every single beat in my heart is yours to keep.

Grateful is right. Too much gratitude to fit on this blog…

So close your eyes
Let me tell you all the reasons why
You’re never gonna have to cry babe
Because you’re one of a kind
Yeah, here’s to you
You’re the one that always pulls us through
You always do what you got to do babe

You’re the reason why I’m breathing
with a little look my way
You’re the reason why I’m feeling
it’s finally safe to stay.

Breath, heart and soul. That is what you are to me, to Sophie, to Emily. Happy Mother’s Day, today and every day.

Here now is the Mother’s Day gift on this blog from your girls.
Mommy’s Video, by Sophie Brodinsky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlYxFu4sGgU

We love you.
Mark

Mark Brodinsky, Author, Blogger, Financial Services
The Amazon #1 Best-Seller: It Takes 2. Surviving Breast Cancer: A Spouse’s Story
www.amazon.com/author/markbrodinsky
markbrodinsky@gmail.com

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