It's Sunday and it's Mother's Day. Mother's Day originally was begun with a link between religious worship services and the honoring of mothers for all that they do in the care of their children and families, and community. Initially, the predominantly Christian idea (in 1908) was for families to attend church services together, in acknowledgement of God's love, expressed through a mother's heart and hands. Over the years, with the growth of mass marketing techniques, Mother's Day became commercialized. On one hand, this diminished the religious meaning. On the other hand, the tradition spread to become an multi-international recognition of the role of mothers. Eventually, Mother's Day leveraged recognition of the crucial role that father's play in human culture with the establishment of Father's Day.
The larger cultural, intentional, conscious reflection on our mothers--our own, societies', and indeed Divine Mothers--is a wondrous example of how consciousness itself grows and expands. The process can be painful for some. It can easily get diluted and tainted with issues of materialism and profit, as well as personal emotions of obligation, rivalry and disappointment. Yet overall, in honoring one level of mothering, we have opened the door to a deeper understanding that life takes care of life. There are layers to our relationship with our mothers, because we are all complex and even mysterious beings, just as there are layers to our understanding of Divine or Transcendent Love and Care. Divine Mothers exist in all spiritual traditions and in the human heart as well--male or female. (Susan Nettleton)
For further contemplation, follow the link below: https://megansspark.blogspot.com/.../they-say-she-is... (Contemporary American poet, Judy Grahn)