The Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. They bring a rich culture and a long legacy of family, and kinship. The Māori have a saying: “The way the sapling is shaped determines how the tree grows”. In my blogs, I often reflect on how my mentors have shaped my life and my path, but as we go into this weekend let us reflect and show thanks for our very first mentors in life…our mothers.
This Sunday is Mother’s Day, and a wonderful opportunity to honor and show appreciation for the love, guidance, and sacrifices the mothers (and mother figures) in our lives so freely give. It is a day honoring the important role mothers play and the positive impacts they have in shaping our lives. I am who I am today because of the mother I was blessed to have, and my sons are who they are because of their mother.
Think of all our mothers are asked to do/endure… They are asked to carry us as we develop, give birth to us, and give care during infancy while late guiding and directing us as toddlers, children, and young adults. All the while, they know the end goal of all this effort is to turn us loose into what can be a cold cruel world where we have to fend for ourselves. Though they may rather keep us close and safe, they bet on us to have benefitted from all the love and care they’ve shared over the first two decades, to sustain us over the six (if we’re lucky) that will likely follow.
It’s an incredible ask… and one only our mothers answer and sacrifice to deliver.
Let this be your reminder to mail a card, send a gift, make a call, schedule an outing, or just plan to spend some time together with your first mentor in life. How do you plan to celebrate Mother’s Day this year?
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