title: A Cup Of Comfort For Mothers To Be: Stories That Celebrate a Very Special Time
author: Colleen Sell
description: <b>Colleen Sell</b> has edited, ghostwritten, or cowritten more than sixty books, including a dozen volumes in the <i>Cup of Comfort</i> series. She writes fiction and nonfiction. Colleen lives in Cottage Grove, Oregon.
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  # Mother
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Kathleen Norris
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  CHAPTER I
  
  
  CHAPTER II
  
  
  CHAPTER III
  
  
  CHAPTER IV
  
  
  CHAPTER V
  
  
  CHAPTER VI
  
  
  CHAPTER VII
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Mother
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Kathleen Norris
  
  
  
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  
  
      
  
  
  Formatted by Joyce Noverr (JMNoverr@att.net)
  
  
  Originally formatted in HTML by Jim Weiler (NakedWord@aol.com)
  
  
  for The Naked Word
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
  MOTHER
  
  
  A STORY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
  TO
  
  
  J. E. T. AND J. A. T.
  
  
  As years ago we carried to your knees
  
  
  The tales and treasures of eventful days,
  
  
  Knowing no deed too humble for your praise,
  
  
  Nor any gift too trivial to please,
  
  
  So still we bring, with older smiles and tears,
  
  
  What gifts we may, to claim the old, dear right;
  
  
  Your faith, beyond the silence and the night,
  
  
  Your love still close and watching through the years.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I