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Ms. Hyacinth smiled softly as she took note that everyone was present and accounted for. She spoke over the box in a language unknown to the younger couple. Humming with eyes closed, her left foot patted the floor three times. There was stillness. Even Buddy was fixed on her. She raised the box, and then drew it back to herself.
"Ah now, ma friends. Don’t cha know that everyt'ing is right and good, how it should be, and every one is here now.”
With ears perked, Buddy and Timmy followed her movements. It was as though they sensed something that the people could not.
“What you see here is no ordinary box...for this little t'ing here was ma mamma's. It was given to her by her mother. And her mother’s mother before her. It holds the gifts of the mothers, as each of us here holds gifts of our very own mothers inside us."
Ms. Hyacinth stopped to look at the puzzled, but open faces of Tina and Spencer.
“Yes…you walk every day wit’ the gifts your mommas gave you.”
She pointed at their hearts and then touched their foreheads.
“You might say, your gift is hidden deep, deep, inside of you, and so you believe it’s lost or you may even believe it never existed.”
Tina tried to think of a gift her mom had given her. No matter how deeply she explored, her mind came up blank. Once again, she felt the pang of emptiness and the ageless longing for something, anything, from her mom. Locking her eyes on Ms. Hyacinth's face, she felt a faint rekindling of hope stir within. Was it possible that perhaps it would be this African woman who would reveal the thing hidden, locked away in her empty place, that her own mother failed to see?
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Have you ever dreamed of a better life? Have you ever felt lost and wished for a trusted advisor to guide you? "Whole" is a contemporary tale of two people who, on a bet, take a trip to the country. Discovering an inn in the midst of an apple orchard, they are sheltered from an unexpected storm by three unusual old people. But a storm of a different sort follows them into the inn, where they are confronted with their pasts and yet are blown away by gifts of wisdom and unconditional love. What began as a pleasant distraction from their frenzied lives, became a journey to Wholeness by discovering the mother-within.
About the Author
Patrica J. Dauser is a licensed psychologist in private practice. In nearly four decades of counseling clients, she observed that many people do not like themselves. Instead, they are self critical and pour their support and love onto others. Ruth A. Johnson retired from the corporate world. She uses practical spirituality in short stories that combine humor and empathy with eveeryday truths. The authors connected over the idea of using story as medicine. Over lively fireside chats, they developed the concept of the mother-within, which is the lost remedy for what seems missing in our lives.