What Is the Meaning of Mothers Day?
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What Is the Meaning of Mothers Day?
To understand Mother's Day and what it really means, you need to understand the person in your life called 'Mother'. Mother is one who nurtures you in her womb for nine months and brings you forth to enjoy the supreme blessing on earth, that is, Life. Mother is one who guides you through your infancy and turns the soft, helpless creature to the powerful and successful YOU. She is the guardian angel protecting you and supporting you, feeling for you and serving you silently always with a smile on her face. She prides herself watching you grow and provides you a shoulder to cry on whenever you need. She is every child's best friend.
For a child, every single day should be a Mothers Day. The essence of the meaning of Mother's Day is in the fact that we should try and make this day every year a memorable one for your mother. She should cherish the special feeling of this day and the intensity of that feeling should last her the lifetime.
This is the day to stop, remember, and pray for that special person in our life, without whom we would not have been, what we are today; a day to prove that all her efforts, towards making us a complete person, have been worthwhile and make her feel proud for us. In the broader sense of the term, Mother's Day is a day to be grateful to God for being so kind as to bless us with an angel in the form of Mother.
Moms have been celebrated throughout time of course, and in recorded events in Egyptian, Greek and Roman times. The origins of a specific Mother's Day go all the way back to the 16th century and the practice of visiting one's "mother church" once a year.
On that day, dark ages moms would be reunited with their children at church. In the United States, a mother and social activist, Julia Ward Howe worked to create a Mother's Day for Peace day during the Civil War in an attempt to organize mothers against war.
It was not until 1914 that President Woodrow Wilson declared the first national Mother's Day to honor mothers whose sons had died in war. In some parts of the country, it is traditional to wait until Mothers Day to plant tomatoes.
Since then, Mother's Day has gone on to become the most popular day of the year to dine out in a restaurant and to make long distance phone calls and May is the biggest month for florists. Mother's Day is celebrated around the world, though the actual date changes depending on the country.
May 2011 Issue Five
Happenings for the month of May
May 6th -12th - Nurses Week
May 8th - Mothers Day
May 8th -14th National Nursing Home Week
May 9th - Mothers Day Tea
May 12th - Fishing at Spellerburg Park
May 13th - Grill Out! Hamburgers & Hot Dogs served for lunch. Others invited to share the meal are Board Members, Senior Citizens and Sprit Canyon Residents.
Birthdays for the Month of May
Staff Residents
Lori Morrison- 5/9 Joe Brown- 5/3
Dawn Spade- 5/3 Raymond Provancial- 5/4
Neal Albers- 5/19 Mary Danielson- 5/7
Kathi Brady- 5/23 Tim Reiter- 5/9
Shelia Halvorson- 5/26 Lois Alberts- 5/27
Donna Edmundson- 5/27
Easter and Easter Egg Hunt 2011