Thank you Mothers

A young college student was honored at Graduation, not only for being the best in class as valedictorian, but for excelling over and beyond his classmates. He was asked to receive a special medal from the College President just after the certificates were handed out to the hundreds of other graduates. After the President had placed the medal around his neck, the young man approached the audience, and specifically he approached a woman sitting by herself, in simple clothes. He took off the medal from around his neck and placed it around this woman’s neck, hugging her in the process.  The woman was his mother, who had become a widow when the student was still a baby, but sacrificed everything she had to raise him up and give him a good education. The entire audience erupted in a huge and prolonged applause. Like her there are many other parents who sacrifice everything they have to see their children progress academically and follow a good career, often as a professional, a doctor, a lawyer, an artist, attaining a doctorate, or even as a priest. Henry Ward Beecher once wrote ‘The Mother’s heart is the child’s classroom.’ It is true that the heart of any mother forms every child in the truth, and irrespective of how many classes he or she attends in primary, secondary or University classes, the basis of every human being is grounded at home, right in the mother’s heart. We owe it to them for giving us all that we ever needed in life. As Abraham Lincoln said once ‘All that I am, and all I like to be, I owe it to my angel mother.’ Thank you to our beloved mothers. We pray for those who have left us, and pray for those alive that they will continue to be great partners to their husbands and excellent role models to their children.