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HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

May 14, 2017 News

Everyone should celebrate Mother’s Day in honour of their mothers and to thank them for all their love and support. Every human being on earth has a mother and Mother’s love is unconditional. Mothers, like children, are the most precious gifts from God to us. We can never really thank our mothers for all they have done for us nevertheless, but we must make it a habit to keep reminding ourselves of the various sacrifices they have made while raising us. Mother’s Day is the best time to tell our mothers how much we love and appreciate them.
The celebration of Mother’s Day surrounds the commemoration and honour of motherhood. And although the celebration varies from country to country, it dates back to the Greek annual spring festival which in Greek mythology is dedicated to their maternal Goddess, Rhea. In England, Mother’s Day began in the 1600s when a “Mothering Sunday” was celebrated to honour Mary Magdalene, the mother of Jesus Christ but was later expanded by a religious order to include all the mothers in England.
In the United States, thanks to the pioneering efforts of Julia Ward Howe, a social activist who wrote the Civil War song: “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, and Anna Jarvis, a Pennsylvania native, President Woodrow Wilson declared May 8, 1914 to be Mother’s Day. It was to honour mothers and to appeal and acknowledge womanhood in the United States and throughout the world.
In keeping with the U.S tradition that began in the early 20th century, today, most of the countries celebrate Mother’s Day on the second Sunday in May. However, different societies have devised unique ways to recognize the multifaceted roles and talents of mothers in their Mother’s Day celebrations.
Over the years, the tradition of Mother’s Day celebration has changed. It has become so much commercialized, that many believe that merchants more than mothers are the greatest beneficiaries. Mother’s Day continues to be one of the most commercially successful occasions in the United States and several other countries around the world especially for the florists, gift cards and other commercial industries.
This contrasts sharply with the intent to conceptualize a special day to honour and pay homage to mothers.
It is true that mothers are special and hundreds of millions of people around the world will be celebrating Mother’s Day by showering them with gifts, etc. We in Guyana should honour and recognize our mothers for giving us life, raising us and for being there for us through good and bad times. We should also shower them with praises, gifts and love for being affectionate, kind and caring.
As we celebrate Mother’s Day with our families this year, we must remember the mothers who were murdered and who are being sexually and physically abused by their spouses or partners for no sensible reason.
Mothers are special and irreplaceable and no matter what they do or what strife they may have caused, they do not deserve to face such horrible deaths. In fact, no one should. Those who have been murdered have inadvertently become a symbol of the struggle mothers and women in general encountered daily in society.
At times, one gets the impression that society has failed our mothers. And this has spelled disaster for children and, in many cases, the entire family structure, which without mothers, is delicate. Mothers are both special and precious and should be honoured and recognized not only on Mother’s Day, but also every day.
It is the mother whom nature has entrusted the sacred and perhaps the most serious responsibility of nurturing and caring for children from conception to birth and to adulthood. Inherent in this loving relationship is a bond that is as deep and as eternal as life itself. It is a sense of duty like no other. Happy Mother’s Day.

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