Honoring Mothers

The history of Mother’s Day is centuries old and dates back to the ancient Greeks, who held festivities to honor Rhea,
the mother of the gods. Early Christians also celebrated the Mother’s festival on the fourth Sunday of Lent to honor Mary, the mother of Christ. 

In 1872 Julia Ward Howe organized a day for mothers dedicated to peace. It marks the beginning of our present day Mother’s Day.

In 1907, Anna M. Jarvis, a Philadelphia school teacher, began a movement to set up a national Mother’s Day in honor of her mother, Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis. The first Mother’s Day observance was a church service honoring Anna’s mother. Anna handed out her mother’s favorite flowers, white carnations, on the occasion as they represent
sweetness, purity, and patience. 

She then solicited the help of hundreds of legislators
and prominent businessmen to create a special day to honor all mothers. Anna’s hard work finally paid off in 1914, when President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the second Sunday in May as a national holiday in honor of mothers.

Dr. Christopher helped many women who desired to have children, but were unable to. He knew that in order to have a healthy baby the mother-to-be must prepare her body using his 3 Day Cleanse and Mucusless Diet for several months before trying to conceive. His Female Reproductive formula helped heal and repair the reproductive organs and
his Hormonal Changease formula helped balance the hormones. He said these two formulas can be used during the entire pregnancy and also before and following pregnancy. They can be used as needed as they are both herbal foods like any other food and can do no harm in any way. 

Many mothers have benefitted from the knowledge that Dr. Christopher shared about caring for their children. One of his favorite herbs for pregnancy and children’s health was red raspberry leaf. When the mother of a large family contacted him wondering what to do for her child who had the flu, he told her to
give the child large amounts of red raspberry leaf tea. She was worried about the rest of the family getting sick with the biggest problem of having only one bathroom for so many people. Dr. Christopher told her to make big pots of the tea and have the whole family drink a lot of it. The child recovered quickly and the rest of the family did not get sick. This is one example of the way mothers are able to help their families through natural methods. 

We honor all mothers on Mother’s Day and are grateful for their love and sacrifice for their children. There is no love like a
mothers for her child. 

Mothers

Mothers are people who cook things

Like breakfast or lunch or a snack;

Dexterous people who hook things

Which button or zip up the back.

Mothers
are people who blow things

Balloons and kisses and noses;

Green-thumbish people who grow things

Like ivy and puppies and roses.

Mothers are people who send things 

Like letters and strawberry tarts; 

Magical people who mend things

Like blue
jeans and elbows and hearts. 

Mothers are people who find things

Like mittens and homework and germs;

Fussbudget people who mind things

Like cusswords and snowballs and
worms.

Mothers are people who sweep things 

Like porches and cobwebs and rugs.

Softhearted people who keep things

Like artwork, report cards, and hugs.

Mothers are people who nurse things,

A boy or a girl or a spouse.

And all in all
there are worse things 

Than mothers to have in your house

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Jo Francks is a Master Herbalist working at the School of Natural
Healing.