There are few things as constant and enduring as a mother's love. Although today, the second Sunday in May, is the day this country has set aside to pay tribute to mothers everywhere, the men of Eta Nu Nu of the illustrious Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., pay tribute to mothers every day.
Mothers will do things for their children that others will not; support their children (no matter how old they are) when others won't and will help them see the forest for the trees, when they, for whatever reason, cannot. The men of Eta Nu Nu are fully aware that their mother's love has shaped them, guided them, nurtured them and contributed greatly to the men they have become. It is impossible to repay that debt. On this day, however, it is important that the men of Eta Nu Nu make clear that without mothers there would be no us.
While Mother’s Day became an official holiday in 1914 when President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation honoring mothers on this day, it was Anna Maria Jarvis who drove the idea. Jarvis’s mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, an Appalachian community activist during the Civil War era and a native of Culpeper, Virginia, had expressed a desire to bring to fruition such a holiday as early as the mid 1850s. She organized “Mothers’ Day Work Club” and after she passed daughter Anna Maria Jarvis took up the cause and made it part of her life’s work resulting in Wilson’s actions years later.
As the men of Eta Nu Nu reflect on Mother’s Day it is important that we admit there may have been times when the unconditional love from our mothers may not have been something we truly deserved, for on far too many occasions, I am sure we got on her last nerve. And just when we may have feared that her unconditional love had run its course, she always seemed to have some stored in reserve.
While this day is officially Mother’s Day the men of the Eta Nu Nu chapter of the illustrious Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., give thanks, praise and tribute to all mothers everywhere, 365 days a year.