welcome to the astonishing light of your being day which coincides with mothering peace day, a day many countries around the world celebrate as mother’s day on the second sunday of may… i go back to 1870 when Julia Ward Howe – an abolitionist best remembered as the poet who wrote “Battle Hymn of the Republic” – worked to establish a Mother’s Peace Day. Howe dedicated the celebration to the eradication of war, and organized festivities in Boston for years….
her call for women to arise remains electrifying one hundred and forty-nine years later… we need to return to the original focus – that of promoting world peace… this Mother’s Day, honor your mother by contributing to the “great and general interests of peace” both at home and abroad… when 1000 mothers come together calling for peace, harmony becomes the frequency of consciousness…
may all mothers of invention, no matter your gender, come together being peace now…