Robinson-Regis tells her mother ‘sorry’

.The Arouca / Maloney MP was speaking at a Mother’s Day service held at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Port of Spain .

“I know there are times when, much to her distress, I walked other paths and other ways only to return to the path to which she had originally directed me,” Robinson-Regis said .

“For that mom, I am truly sorry. And yet, it is through those deviations I grew to love and appreciate her so much more. Today I pray that I have as much patience with my own girls as she had with me.” She said it is from her mother’s resilience, patience and understanding she has come to recognise the deepest and most profound source of her own being and the meaning behind everything that exists .

“If you have ever wondered about my own strength and resilience as a person in public life, I owe it all to my mother who nurtured me for this new wine vineyard. I have withstood the wickedness and snares of the devil of public life because my mother taught me that ‘Though weeping may endure for the night, joy cometh with the morning.’ And every time I walk into the Parliament chamber I say, with the psalmist (David), ‘Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff shall bring me comfort.” The theme of yesterday’s service was Nurturing Mothers and Families in the new wine Vineyard .

She said the new wine vineyard is not an easy place to be a mother because it is a place where mothers worry daily about the safety and security of their children .

Robinson-Regis said many of the challenges mothers face originate from their desire to please everyone and to prove that they can be superwomen .