Call for the Wailing Women: A Wail for Our Mothers
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Saturday, May 12th from 8:00-9:30am ET
Being a mother may just be the world's most challenging job. Think you can put a price on being a mother? Try $143,102. That's according to Salary.com. There is obviously no way to put a price on how much a mother is actually worth. But if you take a closer look at the various hats a stay-at-home mother wears, this number is as close as they will probably ever get to putting a price tag on the job.
Whether it’s a stay-at-home mom or working mom, single mom or co-parenting mom, stepmom, grand-mom, daycare-mom, or spiritual-mom, they are extremely needful and vitally important. They say “the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.” This is true because children spend much of their formidable years with their mothers. Mothers have reared and groomed the people who make up our society. If not your own, I’m sure you can think of a mother who made an impact in your life.
I was blessed to be a stay-at-home mom, but I understand that not every mother has that luxury. I finally went to work when my children went to school. I remember being on the train once and watched as a lady gave instructions over the phone to her son. She walked him through the entire process of getting up, getting dressed, making his lunch, and getting himself off to school. I thought to myself, “Wow, what a sacrifice this mom has to make.” She had to mother her child over the phone.
We hear many times of the sacrifices mothers make for their children. They work hard to make sure their families don’t go without and many times ignore the things they need to accomplish this. My own mother who was a single mom of five children growing up in the inner city of New York. She would get up every morning at 5:00 a.m. and head out to work at a ham factory. She literally worked inside a freezer for many years to support my siblings and me. After a hard day at work, she came home and cooked for all of us. She did not make a lot of money, but she kept us clean and fed. Her heart’s desire was that her children would obtain an education and do better for themselves. In May 2010, I was the first of my siblings to finish college. As I marched across the stage, I saw the proud look on my mother’s face as if to say, “My hard work has paid off.”
Besides having my mom in my life, I have had the honor of having a spiritual mom who poured into me and helped mold me into the person I am today. Although, I did not know her long before she passed, the few years I knew her were enough to make a lasting impression on me and my spiritual walk with Christ. I still miss her dearly.
Additionally, I had two teachers who took an interest in me when I was younger. Although they were not moms themselves, they mothered me. They exposed me to a different side of life, apart from the inner city of New York. They showed me what it was like to dine at a fine restaurant and introduced me to the suburban areas of New York. This motivated me to work hard in school and realize that an education could take me places.
With Mother’s Day coming up this month, let’s give a shout out to our mothers and take up a wailing for all their hard-work, dedication, and sacrifices. Whether it’s a stay-at-home mom or working mom, single mom or co-parenting mom, stepmom, grand-mom, daycare-mom, or spiritual-mom, let them know how much you appreciate all they have done to help form you into the person you are today. We are praying for their strength to continue forming lives.