For mothers who have lost a child to wars, to ill-health, to accidents, there is no consolation that will ever fill their hearts as did their child. If you know such a mother, you know what I mean. If you don't, count yourself fortunate. Either way, take a moment with her or with yourself to count the blessings during life of a child. Hallmark should have a card for this, but there are no words that can communicate the sharing of such a loss. There's only your quiet embraces for the mothers who feel such sorrow on Mothers Day.
A nation feels the loss today. And, the origins of Mothers Day:
Mother’s Day couldn’t seem farther from Yom Hazikaron, but it turns out that it didn’t start that way. The 19th-century poet and feminist Julia Ward Howe, best known for penning the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” began crusading for a Mother’s Day for Peace in the wake of the horrific devastation of the Civil and Franco-Prussian Wars. Around the same time, Anna Reeves Jarvis was advocating for a Mother’s Work Day with a similar purpose. When Jarvis died, her daughter, also named Anna Jarvis, took up the mantle. But the second Jarvis was more concerned with honoring mothers and less concerned with promoting peace....She successfully lobbied Congress for her cause (no one wants to be on the record against mothers), and in 1914 Woodrow Wilson signed a joint resolution that made the second Sunday in May officially a day to recognize mothers. Anna Jarvis soon became disillusioned with the commercialization of the holiday she had helped create, noting that “I wanted it to be a day of sentiment, not profit.”
