Sending the Mother's Day Love

to those who struggle today

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Some don’t bat an eye to Mother’s Day - they don’t see it as painful. They don’t dread it. It only exists for them as a day to remember mom and grandma and to have their kids make them handmade cards, bring them breakfast in bed, and offer to do little nice things for them.

I am happy for those moms. I stand in amazement at their lives, to be honest, but I am happy for them.

Because mothers and grandmothers do deserve to be thanked and love.

They don’t receive the compensation they deserve for the important role that they give - societally. We are a culture run by money and we don’t provide monetary support for those who do arguably one of the most important roles - raise children - either through ‘paid’ motherhood positions, financially eased daycare, guaranteed maternity leave, etc. There’s a reason people aren’t having babies these days and the government is trying to incentivize it.

But, I digress -

I send love and support and solidarity to those who hurt on Mothers’ Day-

Those who have lost children - at any age.

Those who are estranged from their kiddos.

Those who never got to see their children live and breathe in this world.

Those who never had a mother, because they died or they never loved and mothered.

Those who had a cruel mother and they had to parent themselves and perhaps raise other siblings.

This day is a reminder for many of the family they never had, either their own nuclear family or one that they never created, and the pain involved in that -

Today can be a very lonely and hard day for many.

And I want to send love to those of you who may be experiencing that and feeling that.

I hold you in love and light today.

I pray comfort and peace for you.

I understand that today can be especially hard.

I send you hearts today - for love and because -

My mother loved hearts.

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