This is my second Mother’s Day without my Mom and there is still rarely a day when I don’t think about her and miss her. Few days back I listened a concert. Some words from the song Wanting Memories resonated with me. I thought that you were gone, but now I know you’re with me.
I lost my mom in Jan 2014. There are days that are harder
for me than others and Summer is a difficult
season because mom loved it, sitting on her" piddhaa" (a smaller
version of khat , to sit on )and "bijanaa" (hand fan)in her hand she
used to sit leisurely
chatting and having relief with the fan in her hand . I
do not think we ever get over losing our moms. We go through periods of
adjusting to different levels of grief. Grieving has no time period, you have
to adjust and grieve at your own pace. I lost my father in 2007 and there are
times that the grief is still fresh, but not as sharp as the pain of losing my
mom.
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| God bless all moms |
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| Mom with her g-daughter |
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| mom knitting squares for blanket |
"Mother's Day is
celebrated in over 40 countries worldwide. In the United States in accordance
with Regulation congress of 1914 always falls on the second Sunday in May.
Poland has been established that will be celebrated on May 26.
Most countries that
have adopted this holiday organizes them just in May. It is therefore the month of May, in addition
to many other important dates and anniversaries, which in itself carries, also
a month of the mother. This is yet
another reason to call it the most beautiful month of the year.
Tradition handling of
Mother's Day dates back to ancient Greece.
Along with the blossoming of our ancient ancestors spring approach the
celebration of the feast of Mother Nature.
During special festivals, which culminated in the burning of victims
brought by the congregation, Folding hold the goddess Rhea, wife of Cronus,
mother of the universe and all deities.
In ancient Rome created a custom celebrations of the goddess Cybele,
also regarded as the mother of the gods.
This feast was called Hilaria and it lasted three days, from 15 to 18
May.
The modern Mother's
Day carries a lot remains of the Roman Hilariach. As with many other pagan holidays, Hilaria
been "adapted" by the patriarchs of the early church and converted to
the Catholic feast of the Mother of God.
As time evolved into the custom of that day to return to his home parish
in which this was a baptized, and in this way not only to honor the Mother of
God but also his own mother.
Another look at the
history of Mother's Day is the story of the so-called. "Maternal Sunday," celebrated from
around the sixteenth century in England and Scotland. Every fourth Sunday of Lent for the young and
young laborers were primeval forests to their homes to spend the day with their
mothers. Traditionally mothers bring
small gifts or special "mother's cake", where a visit to the house
was walking the girl.
In the United States
the history of Mother's Day, of course, very happy story, but adoring his
mother to the borders of Miss Anna Jarvis of South Virginia. Two years after her mother's death in 1907,
Anna Jarvis and her circle of friends began a campaign to establish an official
Mother's Day. Miss Jarvis, who herself
never married and who to the end of his life taking care of his blind sister
thought that in this way will make the best tribute that to which he longed
after death more than life. Also argued
that mothers are too undervalued, and children often too late to realize the
validity of the mothers in your life.
The establishment of Mother's Day was to strengthen the bond between
parents and their children, and pay attention to the effort you put in maternal
care of their families. The first
Mother's Day, which led Anna Jarvis was honored with a special Mass at which
they prayed for all the mothers in the world.
Just four years later, Mother's Day was already well known and adopted
the feast. "
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