This seems so simple for most… it’s Mother’s Day a time to celebrate your Mom!!! The woman you look up to and are grateful for the life you have. Maybe you grew up with out such a mom at all. Perhaps you were raised by surrogates like your aunts, grandmothers, sisters or friends. The one you talk with about life’s problems and the woman you find yourself acting like even if your scarred to admit it. Be thankful, be grateful, be proud of that woman!
But what about those who it’s not so simple for? Those who’s mom’s are no longer living and this will be the first Mother’s Day with out her. Those who’s mothers are struggling with major medical issues, those who’s mothers don’t even recognize them any more due to dementia or Alzheimer’s. What about those caring for their mothers like they are children themselves due to aging, lack of financial funds or no one else in the family to help?
Trish and her Mom
Remember the new “mommies” who fear they can’t do enough right for their precious new borns and those sitting in the NICU longing to hold the tiny bundle under the radar of the docs and nurses. The woman who has just adopted a child which they longed for or that woman who is still on the “wait list”. What about the mother who struggles with post-pardom and cries each day about emotions they can’t understand.
What about those who struggle with the dilemma of never being able to become mother’s themselves? Or the women who have lost a child and will never hear the words Mom or Mommy again. Even the woman who gave their child up for adoption, for what ever the reason may have been and long to know that child after all. What about those who have children that can even speak that simple three letter word due to mental challenges and will never feel the hugs of from their very own due to lack of coordination or too weak to do so. Even the mother who’s child doesn’t know to show “love” because they are too detached emotionally from Autism.
MJ & her Mom
This post is in NO way meant to be sad, hurtful or degrading. This has been written for you to be thankful, to be grateful to be proud of that women we all know or use to know, the women we long for and the women we have become because of Mother’s everywhere. Make sure to take a little extra time today to think of Mother’s EVERYWHERE and praise God for the life he has given to you to do something good with for whoever that woman is you call mom or know as a mom…weather she’s yours or not.
Happy Mother’s Day.
