Kevin Durant’s accomplishments this past season left the NBA league unabashedly bestowing upon him the honor of MVP. Kevin, however, unabashedly proclaims that there is another person who better deserves the honor — his mother!
“I don’t think you know what you did. You had my brother when you were 18 years old. Three years later I came out. The odds were stacked against [you]. Single parent with two boys by the time you were 21 years old.
“Everybody told us we weren’t supposed to be here. We moved from apartment to apartment by ourselves. One of the best memories I have is when we moved into our first apartment. No bed, no furniture, and we just all sat in the living room and hugged each other because we thought we made it.
“When something good happens to you, I don’t know about you guys, but I tend to look back to what brought me here. You woke me up in the middle of the night in the summer times. Making me run up a hill. Making me do push-ups. Screaming at me from the sidelines at my games at eight or nine years old.
“We weren’t supposed to be here. You made us believe. You kept us off the street, put clothes on our backs, food on the table. When you didn’t eat, you made sure we ate. You went to sleep hungry. You sacrificed for us. You’re the real MVP.”
Isn’t it true that any real success you experience in your life is due to the sacrifice of someone else? For most of us that someone else was mom. Never underestimate the immense influence of a mother’s sacrificial love and care. Kevin Durant certainly doesn’t.
“She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children arise and call her blessed…” (Proverbs 31:27-28).