Grace Looks Good On You

Every December 24th, I celebrate my mom's birthday.
Happy Birthday, Mma. 🎉🎂🍰🎊
More grace to your age.

Mother,

I love you, forever.

Grace looks good on you

Grace was made for you

Like that fabric of lace on you

Beauty defines you

You're aging with grace

Radiance adorns your face

You are made of grace,

And molded to the Master's taste.

Grace looks good on you

It's like the Dew of Hermon

Is raining all over you.

Daughter of Zion

His banner over

You is everlasting love

Yours is a story of hallelujahs

His grace looks good on you

Cause you are living proof

That God is good,

Grace erased the stress

Of your years

You are indeed blessed

Not a scar nor a tear,

Grace looks good on you

Grace brought you thru

Grace kept you

And delivered you

Whole into a fresh 365,

Yours is a blessed life.

You were fashioned

To be a Divine light

And crowned with glory and honor

Therefore grace,

Like that blouse of lace

Looks real good on you.

Happy birthday to you,

Jesus bless you and keep you.

Akpan

You Excel Them All

My Momma, Deaconess Eka Akpan celebrates her birthday today. Here's a tribute to her undying grace.
May all your hopes and dreams come true, Mma!

Updated: January 11, 2021 14:30

Charismatic Momma

Your touch is a special brew of eternal

Maternal ingenuity

Your Ibibio cuisine is legendary;

Each ingredient added on whispered prayer.

Many women have done virtuously,

Several mothers performed excellently

But how you came through for me consistently

Attests to your matchless grace,

The radiance you lavish

On all around you invokes seasoned praise.

Your hands have molded my path

Your affection resides within my heart.

The memory of my childhood records it well

The bond between mother and son is a spell.

Ain't it swell

That you have thrived

These three score and ten years plus

And proved that beauty never dies.

Countless women have been champions,

But you're more than a conqueror

That tells why you excel them all.

Akpan

Mma Mi

My Mama, the Deaconess Eka Akpan celebrates one more

year on God's Earth today. Happy Birthday Mma.

"Mma mi" (/hmm ma me/) is Ibibio for My Mama.

Love needed no reason,

To set me up with a special person;

Love’s only reason was love itself,

Mma, having you translates as blessed.

I’m gonna write my manger story on you;

A prose on how faithful love beat the odds.

Wise men found a star on the night of the first Yule,

Mma, you are that ancient star in human form.

You were my anchor when I stormed thro a fog,

Your voice was the oil that stilled my troubled sob,

No room in the inns Mma, your heart was my pod:

A tested refuge from the cattle of this cold sod.

Akpan

No Questions Asked

Happy Birthday to my Mama and a great woman -
Deaconess Eka Akpan

Mma

If that name ain't the sweetest thang like a lump of sugar.

I was going to say you taught me everything I ever knew

But then I reflect on the times you broke me off the horns of a dilemma

And it's like damn near impossible to make who you are more beautiful.

Mma

Your love is like a story that keeps unspooling long after the tome is closed.

My heart explodes with untamed emotion but words fall just shy of expression;

How do I even begin when you are my beginning, I'm lost in your shadow.

My affection knows no bounds; it's as wide as the breadth of the ocean.

Mma

Just the thought of you sets an avalanche in motion,

Your pure devotion takes my breath away, like a blast of golden gas.

If I had to do this over, if I had a choice in my own conception;

Mma, I’ll root for you and I’ll do it in a heartbeat no questions asked.

Akpan

Mother Like

A mother like no mother,

She takes it all in her stride.

She just keeps growing stronger.

She’s so fine and she’s my pride.

She’ll cut her hands on broken glass,

If just to shield me from the shards,

Protect me from snakes in the grass,

That’s why I’m her number one fan.

Mama got the heart of a lion;

She’ll stand tall thro the worst drama.

She’s my firm support and pinion.

She’s my hero and I love her.

Akpan

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