Mother’s Day Reflections That Acknowledge Every Story
Perhaps the most over-sentimentalized of all our holidays, Mothers Day isn’t, for some of us, the celebration of happy memories that most of the greeting cards imply. At least the humorous cards, with their brisk sales, imply that, for quite a few of us, a darker reality exists.
Let it be acknowledged here that motherhood is terrifically challenging – and that the pervading popular and sentimentally idealized myths attached to it don’t make what is a difficult task any easier.
For all of you who welcome today’s reminder and happily acknowledge the many gifts of giving and receiving a mother‘s love, I congratulate you on your blessed good fortune.
And for the rest of you, whether mother or child, whose memories are slanted more toward pain and regret, I wish you the gift of healing for you as a child, for you as a mother, for you as the person you are today, who survived a struggle that was often overwhelming and unacknowledged.
Make sure, no matter what it was like then or what it’s like now, that you have a happy Mothers Day