Surely, if someone asks you what the toughest job in the world is, after thinking a few seconds, you will state: being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Since the child conception, it is a full-time job, but at the same time it has the privilege to be paid the highest wage: a sublime love.


So, the right question would be: what does it mean to be a mom? There isn’t just one answer. However, the most honest and complete answer could be imagined through the eyes of a child:

“A mom is as a superhero, is a person who ever has a huge amount of kisses and hugs to demonstrate her immense love, is the only in the world who can tell the temperature just by kissing someone`s forehead, and more than that, a mom is someone who teaches you things like hugging a tree or following the rainbow”

After a while, when we grow up, we realize that a mom is more than a superhero. She is theonly woman who knows what you need even before you ask, and there is nothing as her love and sacrifices, because they are unconditional every day of her life. This is why a son or a daughter will always be thankful for their mom, because she is the only one who can teach them to love everyone even if they do not love you back.

In the same way, it is natural for every woman to conceive motherhood as one of the best gifts they inherit. A mom never feels so much love for one person as when the doctor puts the baby on her chest, after the childbirth. Having a little one resting in her arms is one of the most tender moments a mother can experience.

Therefore, motherhood is the highest and most blessed status women can experience in life. Giving birth to a human being is sharing the creative power of God, and no one can fully understand and feel this gift like a mother. Only a mom knows how fundamental, tiring, and profoundly rewarding is the work of raising children.

Unfortunately, motherhood and the beginning of life since its conception are
threatened by some movements (as the radical feminist)
who argue that motherhood is a misfortune. They believe that women are oppressed because raising
children implies a serious limitation in comparison with men. This is why the legalization of abortion is one of their biggest aims: they believe that women will be free if they can decide whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term. They conceive motherhood as a weakness and not as a precious gift.

 

The consequence of what the radical feminists propose is as a sword piercing through the heart of a mom. It produces a great pain in every woman because it steals from them the desire of becoming mothers. At the same time, it causes the destruction of the traditional family as the natural structure where children can grow up surrounded by their parents’ love.

Finally, in order to protect women’s dignity and vocation it is really important to read what the apostolic letter Mulieris Dignitatem (John Paul II) says about it: motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman’s “part”. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman “discovers herself through a sincere gift of self”. The gift of interior readiness to accept the child and bring it into the world is linked to the marriage union, which should constitute a special moment in the mutual self-giving both by the woman and the man.

Please, we must never forget that motherhood is not a hobby; it is a true gift that God gives women. Furthermore, motherhood is a unique treasure that has the extraordinary potential to influence human beings to guide them to a better world.