Writing in Snow

Mother's Day Contemplations on World Peace

Jamál (Beauty), 13 Jamál Beauty 175 B.E. - Sunday, May 13, 2018

"So it will come to pass that when women participate fully and equally in the affairs of the world, when they enter confidently and capably the great arena of laws and politics, war will cease."

Abdu’l-Baha1

The world is slowing moving toward gender equality and world peace. This is a process that was set into motion when the Bab declared His mission in May of 1844. I speed increased in April of 1863 when Baha'u'llah declared His mission. In 1870, Julie Ward Howe suggested a "Mother's Day for Peace", which was briefly celebrated in 1873.2 I don't know why that celebration fizzled out, perhaps it wasn't yet time for women, for mothers, to arise and refuse to send their children off to war. Today gender equality is coming closer, women have more say in the affairs of government and policy making, and that their power is increasing. This means that World Peace is on the horizon.

Mother's Day Poem: One Race3

Germinated
In the womb of Africa
Humanity sent shoots worldwide

Facebook Status Update

Call your mother,
it's Mother's Day,
if she has transcended
stop and say
a prayer for the departed.

Footnotes
1  The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 135.
2  http://bahaiteachings.org/mothers-day-time-reconsider-world-peace
3  Posted in my offsite blog Poet 999 - A Butterfly Emerges from Her Cocoon.