Mother. One word, a myriad meanings…🧑‍🍼

To mother is not just to create life, it is to sustain life, to save life, to enrich life, to nurture life, to protect and shelter that life. It is complicated, eternal, instinctive and ancient.

Not all mothers are mothers and that statement works both ways.
Some mothers are unable to nurture the child they have for many heartbreaking reasons and some mothers would love nothing more than to have this child they so long for. So they walk through this life nurturing and sharing that motherly love with whomever needs it. They are mothers without children of their own. But mothers they very much are.

If you are a mother in the traditional sense today, be loved. You are someone’s whole world, what a thing.

If you are without your own mother today, be loved. Just as she spent her entire life hoping you would. She lived for your happiness, let her see it if you can.

If you are a mother without children today, be loved. You deserve this more than we know and we see your brave heart opening still to let in those who need.

If you are someone who chose to love another’s child today, be loved. This world exists more beautifully because of your selfless and boundless light.

If you have never known a mother’s love, be the start of it, make it anew. And show the world what it should look like. The legacy you leave will change history.

Find a way today, if you can, to celebrate ‘creation’.
To celebrate your existence, to celebrate love itself.

Mother, one word, a myriad meanings…
complicated, eternal, primal, and without us, there would be nothing.

✍️ Donna Ashworth.
From Mother’s Day in Wild Hope
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Beautiful art by Annie Armstrong.