“Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.” Proverbs 31:10

There is no argument our time sensitive world impacts on everyday day life. The demand is so overwhelming that due processes and procedures are on the verge of collapse in our quest to march up with the spin of or be a head of time. Indeed we are literally open to a stampeding contest.

Historically even though we have come a long way and achieved some gains from our history of primitive culture, ignorance and oppressions unto civility, respect, opportunity and liberty etc we are can unanimously agree that our good is not good enough!

Indeed the stride had not been easy but behind us is our history; the future is before us and no doubt with renewed mind and a true spirit we stand at a better ground than our great fathers and mothers. We can not afford to fail our generation in our time.

But in our attempt to get up and catch up with time we are breaking orders with reckless impunity. Life is become a metaphor of the wayward driver.

Drivers plying on the roads do not see crime in breaking a well intended logic of a traffic light meant for order and safety. Indeed in our attempt for greater coverage, we are setting wrong precedents and creating endless causalities.

Against this background of breaking values and changing roles of society it is significant to raise these issues on a time as special as Mother’s Day.

There is no argument every man or woman come from a mother. This makes the concept of the mother an essential value for our learning and understanding. It is symbolic to know that by extension a woman is a mother but reasonably not every woman is mother. Who therefore is a mother?

By this simple reasoning we can understand that the issue of a mother not just a case of biology but a value thing. Mothers have unique natural inherent qualities essential to the development of their offsprings and gudians.

This is a divine giving and especially for mothers. Wonder about the blessing of the breast milk or that loving care? Indeed the blessing of the woman is not around her or with any man or body it is within her!

We learn about some great women who “stood up with the 11” in their time and at the time people questioned their ability and authority; they showed wisdom and awareness and literally signed a social contract to establish a strong foundation and society of motivated and inspired people.

Women who stood for a great cause beyond themselves and whose ingenuity, creativity and vision are a great source of lessons and inspirations. Alas! This unique character and ability of the woman is missing in the interests of today’s mother. This is a serious threat to the cause of society and human development.

Increasingly the concept of the woman is fast changing with the mother merely playing the role of an incubator in a science lab. She is become the simile of a mass production economy yet with little ability to process and to preserve for future use.

This backsliding role of mothers is a Global phenomenon. The advent of the internet and the stampeding demands of globalization put our societies in a fix with cultures on a collision course. The evasion can be so severe that our cultures and values may suffer a great loss.

But thank God we have women of great substance and understanding! This can only be when society particularly the mother reneges on her role. The unreasonable masculine and feminine arguments has not helped issues either but rather foresters doubt and anxieties.

But in all these challenges we see women rise up in self motivations, assurance and confidence to set precedents in leadership, order and wisdom. There is more than evident if mothers and the ordinary woman will appreciate her personality, ability and place in society.

As members of society we must acknowledge each other and recognize that that man or woman, male or female, boy or girl we each have a unique strength and only with the help and co operation of each other can we can prove our worth and progress as a people and a world.

The challenge is on and mothers in their quest for their full potentials either in politics, business or whatever should certainly not doubt their place and personality thereby deny society of their great contribution.

On the occasion of Mother’s Day we wish mothers and the women of Ghana an eventful and memorable mother’s day with a heartfelt one. God bless our mothers the ones in whose hands and hearts the hope and the future of this great nation and generation are.

Go! Mothers Go! “Good Better Best”. The heaven beneath is a mothers feet!