Mothers Day Celebration

Back in 1870, a woman named Julia Ward Howe, another woman ahead of her time, like Elizabeth Towne, became sickened by the carnage she saw during to the America Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. She firmly believed women had the responsibility to participate and shape the world politically, as well as socially.

In the face of all the human loss, Julia Ward Howe wrote the Mothers Day Proclamation to mothers everywhere suffering the loss of their sons', daughters' and husbands'.

I invite you to view the video below and join this Mothers Day celebration and proclaim world peace - as our birth right and responsibility. Remember, this was written 139 years ago, that is pretty amazing!

Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts,
Whether our baptism be of water or of tears!

Say firmly:
We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.

From the bosom of the devastated Earth a voice goes up with our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."

Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel.

Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace,
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God.

In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And at the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day_Proclamation

Happy Mothers Day,

Romy

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