Mother’s Day Reflections by Marianne Williamson: Mother’s Day as we know it was completely changed from the original idea.

Elana Hernon
2 min readMay 12, 2020
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I was listening to a tweet by Marianne Williamson and I was surprised to learn there was a history to Mothers’ Day which she read in her video. You can see the link below. I looked up the original Mother’s Day Proclamation after hearing Marianne and have included the writing below as well as the link to the site that talks further about Mother’s Day origins. Such powerful words and incredible vision!

https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1259592555311710208?s=20

The Appeal to Womanhood Throughout the World

Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of tears! Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, our husbands shall 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 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 is not the…

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Elana Hernon

But your heart, that gives me your story. I hear your story when you speak, how you move, your choices. But you also listen this way. That is our humanity.