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Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's DayOf all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. -Lin Yutang, Chinese writer

Today is more than a day to celebrate your Mother, it is a day to celebrate all women. It is women around the globe who give new life and hope to the world. Women who raise future leaders, who raise the motherless child of another like their own, he protect and shield children’s lives with no thought to themselves, and women who give their lives sacrificing all to see that the lives of children are better than their own.

It is mothers that all too often bare the weight of the world, as many unselfishly give up their children, so that another can give their child the life they cannot; mothers struggle to provide the basic necessities for their children; mothers who are forced to watch their innocent children suffer and die in the toils of war; mothers whose children are taken from their very arms.

Being a mother is undoubtedly the hardest job in the world, and many are handed additional burdens as the struggle to provide and care for their children in the face of conflict, poverty and natural disasters.  Motherhood comes with both joy and heartache, mothers are those who give us life, protect our lives and sacrifice their lives.  It is for all of the mother’s today that that we give thanks, however let us give special consideration to those who undauntedly care and provide for their children in the face of countless hardships.

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