Before you felt the life in your womb
Before your child was born
Did you think about what motherhood entailed?
Did you understand that you would be a role model
that unselfishness would be required of you?
Did you truly understand what it would mean to care for another 24/7
and how you would have to adjust and adapt to your child’s needs?

Before you became a mother did you understand
the sacrifices that you would need to make?
Did you understand unconditional love was a requirement?
Before you became a mother had you healed from your own
woundedness so you would not pass on your hurts to your child?
Before you became a mother did you love yourself?
Had you forgiven your own mother for whatever indiscretions
and failures she might have had?
Before you became a mother were you able to hug and to forgive yourself?
Did you know that your needs would often have to become secondary ?
Before you became a mother had you fulfilled any of your dreams?
Had you thought about what you wanted to gift your child
what kind of a person you wanted to unleash upon the world?

Before you became a mother did you understand the astounding
responsibility you would be taking up?
Did you think about what stories and memories
you wanted to implant in your child and how to teach your child
to love and respect Humanity?
Before you became a mother did you know motherhood
was not a job nor occupation but rather a way of life?
Did you fathom that motherhood is a gift to the world
assuring our continuity?
How lucky you are to have been chosen for such a responsibility…
And how fortunate is the world when you honour your role
and mother another to maturity.

Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers, regardless of gender.