Jan 1, 2021 Mary Mother of God

 

Mary mother of God!

Happy New Year!

I have two boys with me; one in 3rd year B.Com and his younger brother in 12th standard.  When the  younger one was in his mother's womb their father died of cancer.  When the younger one was only 4 years, the mother deserted both of them and have not come to see them even once!

2014!  I used to watch and enjoy Vijay Super singer!  There was this boy Senthilnathan!  Blind and mentally challenged!  He participated in the show, singing!  I used to be in tears whenever he completes singing!  When he was a baby their parents had thrown him on the seashore of  Thiruchendur.  To this show, Senthil was always accompanied by "Pathri" who himself was blind, married to a blind person but were caring about 600 such children!

So, Just because you have given birth to a baby, you don't become a "mother"!  or just because you carried a fetus for 10 months you don't become a mother!  Legally, biologically, DNA wise you may claim your mother status but not your motherhood!

In the same way, Just because one is a male, does not mean he cannot become a mother!  Mr. Pathri is to me a wonderful mother!  And just because you don't get married, does not mean you cannot become a mother or a father!  For example, a nun by name Teresa became Mother Teresa!

Motherhood goes much beyond womanhood!

Also you don't have to have a baby or a child  to claim or prove your motherhood.  In the next village, we have a man who had met with an accident and lost his mental balance and became totally dependent.  He has two children and had a wife.  When he became mentally challenged his wife deserted him.  But his father; must be nearing 70, cares him like a child!  Man can become a mother!  A needy person can bring forth a mother too!

Normally, bearing a child and caring a child makes someone a mother!  For bearing a child, you need another person, good health and good environment!  But caring needs your personal decision and disposition alone!

I have visited the service centres of the Little sisters of the poor! Their home for children, old age homes and so on!  Oh! my God!  They are literally to be adored!  Their service to humanity is matchless! 

Similarly I have seen nuns and nurses who work in leprosarium and hospitals!!  They move your hearts with their unblemished commitment and care!

Humanity needs care!  It thirsts for someone to touch and say, "I am with you"!

People in prisons, the aged ones, the sick in the hospital and those who cannot afford hospital, the orphaned children, the street children, the slum dwellers, millions of farmers who toil day and night to feed this earth, the deserted parents, the grandparents who are alienated from the younger ones in the family, the aged religious in your community, sexually exploited women and children, those denied their rights and languish in poverty and cruelties, the child workers, domestic employees treated like slaves and so many around you thirst for a caring mother!

A laying of hand on their shoulder with an impeccable love will make their day!  A shared portion of your food from your table (I say TABLE; not before dumping in the waste basket) will make their day!  A good portion of your time spend with the lonely will make their day! A visit to the sick, uncared, those in prison will make their day!

Thousands of babies are being delivered everyday!  We don't run short of them!  We are looking forward to the delivery of a mother!  We need mothers, who cares and loves!!

There is a mother in you!  Deliver it!!