In the United States, today is the day we celebrate our Mom's. I thought perhaps it would be wonderful to share a little about the historical perspective of Mother's Day. May you or the women in your life have a special day and lets hope we show them the love and kindness they deserve every day of the year on not just today.
Mother's Day was loosely inspired by the British day and was imported by social activist Julia Ward Howe after the American Civil War. However, it was intended as a call to unite women against war. In 1870, she wrote the Mother's Day Proclamation as a call for peace and disarmament. Howe failed in her attempt to get formal recognition of a Mother's Day for Peace. Her idea was influenced by Ann Jarvis, a young Appalachian homemaker who, starting in 1858, had attempted to improve sanitation through what she called Mothers' Work Days. She organized women throughout the Civil War to work for better sanitary conditions for both sides, and in 1868 she began work to reconcile Union and Confederate neighbors.
May we find a love as great as a Mother's love every day of our lives.
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