sweet words from a book

I am reading to our oldest son right now a book called Mountain Born. It's really good.

The first day I came upon some words that were really meaningful, especially to me as I read aloud to my precoius firstborn boy.

In the passage, the author describes a woman recalling the first day that she held her baby boy and thinking over his life. It says,

"Such a short way she could go with him on that path that was his life; only a few years she would have his hand in hers; then for a few more years he would walk beside her; then he would be a man going his way alone, but if it were a way of kindness, the memory of that first day would always fill her with joy."

Sweet, isn't it?