To All Mothers On Mothers’ Day

Sunday, May 14, 2017, is Mothers’ Day in Ghana and also in a number of countries around the world.

In honour of all mothers, including those who have no biological children but have mothered several children, I dedicate this write-up which I did in memory of my mother and grandma on Mother’s Day in 2015, to them all.

I salute all mothers, including Sweet Vee, who has been a great mother to my children, my best friend, and a reliable and dependable wife who has supported me immensely to enable me get to where I am today.

So here goes the write-up I did in 2015:
Today is Mothers’ Day. Children are visiting their mothers and grandmothers. As usual, I’m ready to drive away from the city to come and visit you, Mum, and Grandma. But alas, I don’t know where I can find you.

Mum Beatrice, where are you? Grandma Kate, please tell me where I can locate you.

When you and father divorced my siblings and I were very young, the responsibility of raising us fell on Grandma and you. I saw you both selling clothes and other clothing materials when I was young and not of school-going age, but later as my siblings and I grew up and started schooling all your trading capital went into our feeding and school fees and other expenses.

Not long, you had to buy things on credit to sell to raise funds to cater for us. I remember sometimes some creditors would come and publicly insult you for failing to pay on time for the items taken on credit – the money was simply not there because you had used most part of it for our upkeep and school fees.

My siblings and I were therefore raised in a very difficult situation, but one thing I still remember Grandma and you for, was that you always led us to God.

Mother, you always told us to learn from David in Psalm 35:1, and hand our battles to Him and tell Him: “Lord, fight against those who fight against us." You also showed us how to love everyone as you did to all manner of people, including even those who clearly showed they hated you.

We, the children called Grandma, ‘Maame’ and you, ‘Auntie’ because until we grew up we always knew Grandma to be our mother and you as her sister. Such was the bond between a mother and her only child that, the affection naturally transferred to us the children.

Today, I ready to driven to the Holy City as I do all the time to see you both, but sadly, you have both left us. Maame left us on 2nd October, 1999; to be followed by you, Auntie, on 15th August, 2007.

On occasions like today when children would visit their mothers, especially such mothers like you Maame and Auntie, my eyes get filled with tears, remembering how you sacrificed all that you had for us, but never lived that long to enable us treat you like the queens that you were to us.

But for your sacrificing for me to have basic education with which I, through God’s grace, managed to continue on my own, I wouldn’t know where I would be today.

I will forever remember you, Maame and Auntie, and your special love, and above all for introducing me to Jesus, who has held me up and strengthened me.

Mothers’ Day, oh, how I wish there’s no more celebrations of this day, which usually reminds me of those two sad days, 2^nd October and 15^th August, and gets my tears pour all day.

* Dedicated to my beloved late Mum, Beatrice Acquah, and Grandma Kate Appiah on Mothers’ Day, on May 10, 2015.