Five books for all mothers

Its mother’s day season across the world. Although I have referred to it as a season, it is often celebrated on different days by different churches and different cultures across the world. I am a sucker for all things in the motherhood spectrum because I think it is the most special place to be whether the kids are your birth children or not. To be A Mum is a thing of the heart and it is beyond just having the babies biologically. Being a mother is God’s given assignment, a truly special place to be. The atrocities committed against motherhood is with us as we awake every day. How do we describe the pain of the killing of two priests in Benue? What are we to tell their mothers? What about the mothers in Syria and the parents of the Chibok girls, what do we tell Leah’s mother, the young girl who we are informed chose to stay back on account of failing to renounce her faith? What do you tell mothers of missing children, kidnapped children and children truly lost in the throes of codeine? Motherhood beautiful as it is facing many challenges today. It is on account of all of these difficulties that we must remember our mothers this year and treat them with love and kindness. For us Catholics, may is the month of the mother of Jesus Christ and she is celebrated throughout May for her sacrifices and her mediating role for all Christians. Here then are books for our mothers as we wish them Happy Mother’s day in spite of the odds all around us.