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Happy Mothers’ Day To Super Mothers by DAVECENA(m): 12:50am On Apr 18, 2015 |
Catholics in Nigeria celebrate Mother’s Day. Some denominations celebrated Mother’s Day on the fourth Sunday of Lent. Some other countries, like America (May 11), are yet to celebrate Mother’s Day. Anyway, whether it is in advance or in arrears, I wish our beautiful and wonderful mothers a very happy Mother’s Day. I celebrate you on this day for your love, motherly care, patience, sacrifices, the discomfort you went through during pregnancy and pains at childbirth. I celebrate you for those sleepless nights and the pregnancies that created pot bellies out of your flat tummies. We might buy you gifts, take you out for dinner and spend quality time with you on Mother’s Day and at some other time, but we can never repay you for all you have done and gone through. Whatever we do is just a token of our appreciation and love. I dedicate today’s column to all super mothers who have gone the extra mile and made tremendous sacrifice in bringing up great children who are useful members of the society. Specifically, I celebrate the following women for their great and heroic deeds. Our first super mother is Mrs. Patricia Ogigirigi. Many years ago, you showed the world the way to go when you were holding very important positions in the church and your children were role models. One of your daughters got pregnant. More than 90 out of 100 women in your situation would have secretly aborted that pregnancy to save themselves the “shame”, maintain a false façade and continue to live a lie. But not you; you hauled defiance at what the world will think or say, you took her in and nurtured her until she gave birth. You took the baby from her and she went back to complete her studies. My respect and love for you have tripled since then. Thank you for being a real and true Christian mother; thank you for not throwing away the baby with the bath water. The last time I came around, the young boy has grown into a devastatingly handsome man. The world would have been much poorer had he been flushed down the drain as a fetus. Happy Mother’s Day, Super Mother Patricia Ogigirigi. A few months ago, I saw the photograph of Mrs. Hilda Adefarasin on the pages of newspapers on her 90th birthday. At 90, she still looks very trim, beautiful, elegant and royal. I had not seen or heard about her for a while and I was wondering until I saw the birthday photographs. I do not know her personally, but I read a lot about her in those days, especially when she was the president of the Women’s Society of Nigeria now National Council of Women’s societies. At a time when many women got carried away by the gale of women liberation and derailed, she came out in the media to put the records straight: women liberation does not mean women should shirk their marital and motherly responsibilities. She proved what she said on the home front. Her children have turned out great, whatever earlier hiccups there were. Three of them are pastors, winning souls for Christ. Happy Mother’s Day, Super Mother Hilda Adefarasin. Many years ago, there was a story of a molue that got burnt with the passengers on board on Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos. While the fire was raging, a nursing mother threw her toddler through the window of the burning bus. The mother was consumed in the inferno with other passengers, but the baby survived. Happy posthumous Mother’s Day to this caring and brave super mother. Mother Teresa of Calcutta was a Catholic nun. She never had any biological children, but went on to become the only mother thousands of sick, abandoned and poor people knew in Calcuta, India and around the world. She died in 1997. Happy posthumous Mother’s Day, Super Mother Teresa. On June 4, 1994, the Rev. (Mrs.) Christiana Bamidele George sowed a mustard seed which has grown into humongous shrub sheltering 100s of children. On this day she started the Little Saints Orphanage whose programmes over time have transformed over a 1000 lives. Currently the orphanage has over 100 children in four locations. Little Saints orphanage has a three-tier programme for the children: rehabilitation, reformation and reintegration. Little Saints has brought smiles to numerous homes of childless couples through adoption. Surprisingly, the couples adopting these children do not pay a dime to the orphanage, I learnt. Ultimately, Little Saints “vision is to erase the stigma attached to the orphan status and to create a leverage of equality for these group of children with their peers in the world, irrespective of the unfortunate circumstances they were born into. We dream of a greater Nigeria devoid of street beggars, street children and homeless women laboring for crumbs.” Without Mrs. George, these children would have faced an uncertain future, but because God lives through her, these children can face tomorrow. What made Mrs. George’s story more interesting to me was because of her privileged background. She is the first child of our former hard-working governor of the Midwest Region, Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia. She started her orphanage when it was not fashionable for the rich, famous and privileged to get their hands soiled with such issues concerning the “Wretched of the Earth.” Never mind, now it is become a fad for the rich and famous to spend birthdays and other landmark days with the less privileged. Happy Mother’s Day, Super Mother Christiana Bamidele George. Happy Mother’s Day to millions of other super mothers, especially those whose great deeds go unrecognized. God recognizes you. Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers who have made enormous sacrifices in bringing up children who are blessings to their families, their generations and the larger society. God bless you all now and always. source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/happy-mothers-day-to-super-mothers/ |
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