MOTHER’S DAY! – A DIVINE CONNECTIVITY!
We worship several goddesses but we forget to realize that we are living with the one – “Mother”. It is more than a word, an emotion. Celebrate your mother every day as you are blessed to live by the side of your mother.
Mother’s Day falls on the 10th of May this year! – Wish your mom the best and give her your time as she wants nothing more than that.
Origin and History of Mother’s Day: The birth of Mother’s Day has fallen back in the early 1900s. It was a woman named Anna Jarvis who began a campaign for an official holiday for honoring mothers in 1905 and her own mother died in the same year as well.
The first-ever larger-scale celebration of the holiday was in 1908, the year when Jarvis held a public memorial for her mother at her native place of West Virginia. Even before Anna Jarvis worked for a day to recognize mothers, her own mom had moved forward to unite women for one good cause. Ann Reeves Jarvis who was the mother of Anna Jarvis cared for the wounded soldiers on both sides of the field during the Civil War, and later she organized a “Mother’s Friendship Day” which has the goal of reconciliation between the former Union and Confederate soldiers by gathering them along with mothers from both sides.
Well, you could now understand why the junior Anna Jarvis made a struggle to recognize a day for mothers. Like Mother, Like Daughter! So, when it comes to Anna Jarvis’ point of making an official holiday, the next few years the day was celebrated increasingly in many states around the United States.
Finally, in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation which thus made Mother’s Day an official holiday, to take place on the second Sunday of May. Thus, Anna Jarvis succeeded in marking Mother’s Day on the calendar as a day dedicated to expressing love and gratitude to mothers and acknowledging the sacrifices they have made for their children. And this is the exact reason why she was decided to keep “Mother’s” – a singular possessive which is marked by the apostrophe before” s”. So, many of us would have confused about the apostrophe while writing Mother’s Day right? Well, you have got cleared now with an explanation.
