CSN - CORRECTION to LightWing Messages for Mother’s Day
CORRECTED ADDENDUM -- The REAL Feature Message for Mother’s Day
May God bless all of our readers and all of their loved ones. May God bless America!
May we truly seek God’s Heart - He knows our plight as His children, and His Grace still permeates the planet for those who are willing to receive it. May we truly receive God’s Love - He also knows whether we are hungry or thirsty for His Love, and He does not withhold it. It is we who block the flow of HIs Love intended for our shriveled hearts. May we truly seek the genuine path in pursuit of His Kingdom and His righteousness.
Editor’s Note: The edition today was fraught with copying problems and after today’s edition was sent out, it was noticed that one more “copy and paste” task failed (in addition to numerous failed graphic entries). We apologize, but the feature article was fake! Actually, readers with good memories would likely have realized that the feature article was the one from last week. The paste over of that article failed. It was not caught until the edition was sent. So sorry. Here we offer the correction, for those who would like to have the REAL feature article:
The Value of Motherhood from Another Time, Not Long Ago
By Dennis Jamison
5/12/23
In the past year, several political reverberations, or ‘aftershocks’ have swept through the nation over the SCOTUS sending Roe v Wade back to the states to determine the future of abortion in America. There are numerous implications and outcomes that are still shaking things up across the nation as a result of last year’s reversal in the Supreme Court ruling. Yet, when one deeply looks at the abortion issue from a more comprehensive perspective, the heart of he matter has to do a great deal with the essence of motherhood, or the value our culture places on life itself.
It is quite clear to those who have ears to hear, and those who have eyes to see, that abortion is an incredibly divisive issue, and it stirs people’s passions quite a bit – similar to the way slavery was a controversial issue in America not so long ago. Nevertheless, Americans live in such a time in which the family itself has come under attack from several enemies of the natural family unit. Specifically, in the past 100 years at least, the Left has also politicized and undermined traditional family-oriented holidays. Especially, Mother’s Day has been a target of the Left or Marxists like other traditional American holidays.
When one thinks comprehensively about the abortion issue, the core of abortion is not only the negation of a potential baby being born, it is also the negation of a woman becoming that baby’s mother – practically, the negation of the value of motherhood itself. Although those on the Left, or useful idiots, still offer limited lip support for motherhood, Mother’s Day must honestly hold little value to Leftists and the immoral minions.
Today in America, near the beginning of the 21st century, citizens are facing a definitive choiceHowever, as many readers may be aware, we at the Citizens Sentinels Network had suffered through various attacks against our communication efforts, and one just recently happened via the problems with distributing the Coalition for a Principled Republic.over who we are as a people and as a culture. Although this may be considered an interesting perception, many Americans may not easily grasp that the nation, as we know it, is facing an existential crisis. Our actions or inactions as a people indicate the kind of human beings we are, as well as the kind of culture we prefer to live in and create around us. This may sometimes become a bit easier to understand when the values predominant in two or more cultures are compared. In the comparison between values evident in different cultures, people are often able to get a better or broader perspective on reality.
With the intent to gain a better or broader perspective on contemporary American culture, Mother’s Day, or the value placed upon motherhood, can serve as a convenient measurement. Several nations in the world follow the tradition established in the United States of celebrating Mother’s Day, the second Sunday of May. Unfortunately, tradition may give way to an eroded value of motherhood in the next century. Despite all the Mother’s Day cards and gifts offered to Mom, on this day, America currently suffers from the breakdown of the traditional family. And the core of a family is the mother, and the traditional family is the core of a stable society. On such a day it is hard to confront the reality that one of the aspects of the breakdown of social stability in any society is the diminishment of the value of motherhood itself. Yet, confronting evil is good.
Yet, this is not about what may be wrong with Mom as a person, but about whether daughters or sons truly honor their mothers on Mother’s Day, as well as the value of motherhood. A simple measurement of the diminishment of motherhood – or parenthood – is how many young people today are choosing not to have families of their own. The value of motherhood in America has been maligned in recent decades in many spheres of our contemporary culture. As a result, we observe that young people give serious pause to creating a family. There are many millennials who do not see the need, nor have desire, to start a family. Starting a family is “old fashioned” or irrelevant for people who are centered upon themselves and their temporary and transitory gratification of their sexual needs.
An increasingly prevalent view is that becoming a mother, or motherhood itself, holds less value than remaining unmarried and childless. Even more alarming is the attitude that an undesirable pregnancy is nothing more than a nuisance. Unwanted babies are a problem to be disposed of through abortion. One of the greatest assaults upon motherhood is, in part, is the societal acceptance of abortion as a means of eliminating unplanned for. Or unwanted children. There seems to be a majority of younger Americans who have grown comfortable with abortion since the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade in 1973. It was a landmark case. This single court decision split Americans into two basic camps: pro-choice supporters of the amendment, and pro-life opponents. And today, despite last year’s Supreme Court decision, or perhaps because of it, abortion exists as one of the most divisive cultural issues in the nation, if not in the world.
Although It may not be clear whether a majority of Americans are unaware of the ongoing reality of abortion in America, most alert Americans were conscious of the annoying news media, on a daily basis, bombarding the public with the number of COVID-related deaths during the realm of COVID, but that is not being done with the adverse vaccine events or even the vaccine-related death rates. Imagine if the MSM blasted the American citizens with how many babies were killed due to abortions every day. It would cause people to be fearful of the spread of such a disease of the acceptance of infanticide? Nevertheless, comparative numbers of supposed deaths due to COVID has been calculated to be approximately 802 deaths per day within a certain period.
During the COVID era, I ran across shocking statistics in doing research for an article I wrote, and I’ll simply include a link to it here for the brave of heart. It is limited to statistics on abortion from 2016 numbers, there are more recent numbers that could be plugged into the equation…
Shocking numbers: Comparing COVID-19 deaths to abortion deaths - LifeSite
The COVID calculations were based upon 2020 statistics, and the irony is that actual numbers of COVID-related deaths have been revised downwards as true measurements were insisted upon. It only makes the deaths of the unborn babies stand out even more likely as a planned genocide especially against black and hispanic populations. The numbers are staggering, but more frightening is that they represent a measurement of American’s tolerance of such daily atrocities. Though the tragedy of an untimely death is horrible, even the comparison of the fear and frenzy generated during the COVID terror, there is a genuine statement of public hypocrisy when compared to the atrocities permitted with self-directed killing of one’s child. It is not just inhumane, such practice originates from Satan.
In stark contrast to this reality is another revealing comparison that could be made. It expresses much about the lack of regard for the value of human life. Native Americans and most American Indian peoples held a much deeper regard for motherhood. Looking back across time at the so- called ‘savages,’ one can see a different reality regarding the value of life in the native societies. Unfortunately, many European descendants in America did not have the desire to take much of the native culture seriously, but were satisfied with taking their land and making them dependent upon the government. In turn, the Indians had little desire to share their innermost attitudes on life and their genuine beliefs with the white population for a number of reasons.
Only over time have some of the innermost beliefs of American Indian peoples seeped out into the wider American culture. Unfortunately, relatively few Americans have experienced any real exposure to such spiritual beliefs or ways of living. In stark contrast to prevailing contemporary societal perspectives on the value of life, the Sioux Indian perspective is a bit different, and also quite refreshing. And, while it may be a bit rare to consider an American Indian view of the value of life or bringing new life into the world, some Americans may find it enlightening. Especially, since most American Indian cultures throughout the Americas respected life and all living things, and from their view, humans were a special part of the Creation.
More specifically, one beautiful expression of high regard for the value of motherhood and the special respect for bringing children into the world is found in the writings of Ohiyes’a, a Sioux Indian. Ohiyes’a had a unique experience in America during the turn of the twentieth century. His English name became Charles Alexander Eastman, when he converted to Christianity. Ohiyes’a was born in 1858 into the Santee Sioux Tribe of the Dakota nation. Eventually, he was able to graduate from Boston University in 1889; he became the first American Indian doctor in the nation. Encouraged to write of his culture, he became a somewhat well-known Indian author and from his writings can be gleaned a great amount of insight into Sioux culture.
Ohiyes’a wrote numerous books concerning the perspectives of his people about life, and he had one of his books published in 1911. It was entitled: The Soul of an Indian: an Interpretation. I offer for a comparison to our contemporary culture, this representation of some of the deeper aspects that can be linked to the Sioux or Dakota nation’s views on the value of motherhood:
The Great Song of Creation
Our education begins in our mother’s womb. Her attitude and secret meditations are such as to instill into the receptive soul of the unborn child the love of the Great Mystery and a sense of kinship with all creation.
A pregnant Indian woman often chooses one of the great individuals of her family and tribe as a model for her child. This hero is daily called to mind. Gathers from tradition all of his noted deeds and daring exploits, and rehearses them to herself when alone. In order that the impression might be more distinct, she avoids company. She isolates herself as much as possible, and wanders prayerful in the stillness of the great woods, or on the bosom of the untrodden prairie, not thoughtlessly, but with an eye to the impressions received from the grand and beautiful scenery.
To her poetic mind the imminent birth of her child prefigures the advent of a great spirit – a hero, or the mother of heroes –a thought conceived in the virgin breast of primeval nature, and dreamed out in a hush broken only by the sighing of the pine tree or the thrilling orchestra of a distant waterfall.
And when the day of her days in her life dawns – the day in which there is to be new life, the miracle of whose making has been entrusted to her – she seeks no human aid. She has trained and prepared in body and mind for this, her holiest duty, ever since she can remember.
She meets the ordeal of childbirth alone, where no curious or pitying eyes might embarrass her; where all nature says to her spirit: ‘It is love! It is love! The fulfilling of life!
When, at last, a sacred voice comes to her out of the silence, and a pair of eyes open upon her in the wilderness, she knows with joy that she has borne well her part in the great song of creation!
Ohiyes’a and his people were once considered heathens and savages. Today, he is considered to be one of the first American Indian to write and publish American history from the Indian view of reality. His words open up a deeper insight into the Sioux culture, and more specifically into the native people’s respect and love for life itself. Such a reverence sharply contrasts with the thought originating from the “Progressive” Left, which denies and undermines the values of Life with the Pro-Choice devaluation of motherhood and which dehumanizes the unborn baby in the mother’s womb. “Progressives” are the ones who view the unborn baby as a “thing,” and not a human being. It is a sad commentary on American contemporary culture. Now, after over 100 years from the days of Ohiyes’a, Americans should consider who we are as a people and what has been the true cost of “progress?” Have we lost our souls to gain the world?
Regardless, from those of us who still value motherhood –
Happy Mother’s Day to all Moms!