A large percentage of mothers in the United States expect nothing and get nothing for Mother’s Day.  We can do better!

According to a 2012 Mother’s Day survey of 2,123 U.S. mothers with children under the age of 18:

21.3 %  of mothers expected nothing for Mother’s day and 23.6% actually got nothing for Mother’s Day!*

LET’S DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!  What better time to start, than Mother’s Day?

Expect more.  Work for more.  Believe in more and make it so…

There is a “big gap” between what we wish for and what we expect from the world.  “The tragedy is that we want a better world, but do not really expect it.  Precisely because we don’t expect it, we will never get the world we want.”--Rabbi Jehiel Orenstein

The late Rabbi Jehiel Orenstein urged us to work harder to close the gap between what we want and what we expect:  “Expect a better world.  Work for it…all great achievements begin with a deep faith in their possibility…Tell a child you have faith in the child, and that child blossoms.”

23.6% of mothers surveyed got nothing last year–no card, no flowers, no hand-made gifts–for Mother’s Day.*

 WE CAN DO BETTER!!  Give Mom What She Really Wants This Year…

Acknowledgement:  TELL HER HOW MUCH YOU APPRECIATE HER TIME AND CARE

Maybe, give her some time to herself and a comfortable spot to relax and make her own.

It is not too late;  She may expect nothing, but give mom more than she expects and create a better reality today, tomorrow and in the years to come.

Great Mother’s Day gift ideas from Capitol Lighting and 1800lighting.com…

*http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/199686/what-does-she-really-want-this-mothers-day-not-w.html#axzz2Sz4NFR6n

♥A NOTE FROM YOUR RABBI, please inquire if you would like to see the entire address from Rabbi Orenstein to Congregation Beth El Sabbath Services, May 7, 1976.