By Grace, Neelley You don’t have to give birth to be a mother. God, who is in us all, is both father and mother. When you care for another and the earth, your motherhood shines bright! Although Mother’s Day is a commercialized celebration, it was first intended to be a unifying band of women everywhere to refuse war as a way of resolving world problems. Julia Ward Howe was the visionary behind it just after the US Civil War. She wrote: “Arise, then, women of this day! Arise a