Mother’s Day

Mom showed me that Mother’s Day is a day that I get to put aside the complications and just be grateful for life and all this love.  New Life on Purpose column by Eileen Benthal.

Motherhood for a child with disabilities is more than a lifelong vocation; it’s a daily call to love that stretches your heart beyond imagining.

You are the heart of your home — even if your children have long moved away and have children of their own. It is your lap, your voice, your smile that deep down is the home of every adult and child you have nurtured into life.

To my fellow “medical mamas” the ones I know and the ones whose eyes I meet while walking through the hospital halls — I wish you endless strength today.

The founder of the holiday set aside to honor your mom spent her entire life battling against its commercialization.