Today we honor you, dear mother, for your steady resolve, for your selfless sacrifice and enduring love. You who are the emblem of unconditional love, giving your body, your sleep, your time and your touch to shepherd us all into the world. You who breathes life into the youngest and most impressionable, you who holds and cradles each small being and then learns to let them go. We celebrate your strength and commitment to the long process of ushering each of us helpless, vulnerable beings into the world, we who are at first but a bundle of need. You are the progenitor of us all, you who swaddles the world in your care. Today we celebrate you and the thousands and millions of mothers who give tirelessly and selflessly through the ages.
With gratitude to mothers everywhere.
