So 2014 is practically over and done with. Evaluations and round-ups being done. Auld Lang Syne soon cheered.  Countdown before long completed.  

However there's the last bit of nostalgia for 2014 I would like to share.

I must admit that from over 40 programmes I have anchored on Radju Malta (Ghandi xi Nghid) this year my happiest hour was 'meeting' three fantastic mums one or two weeks ago. 

They are not only enthused mums because of the fantastic narratives they have amassed but because as far as I'm concerned they authenticate not only strength, determination, resilience, love and sensitivity but also rationality and logic.

This article is not (only) about idealizing these three fantastic ladies but it's about reflecting on the complex and crucial role that women have in our society and how our communities lag behind when for some unjustified reason or other we push women to the precipice and affix untoward roles. 

I really think it's the right time to let women take the lead in our country and 'us men' to stop creating clandestine barriers. 

As I said in the beginning of the article one of the last radio programmes of this year I had three wise women as guests whom I would like you to 'meet';

Debbie Schembri brings a 'Golden' narrative 

Debbie is married, has children of her own, pets, a successful business, her house, her family and her career - a regular run-of-the-mill family. As we say in Maltese, 'ma jonqosha xejn'. 

But this woman brings 'gold' in her narrative because like this precious metal her altruism is valuable and quickly becoming a rare commodity.

They say 'gold' is a symbol of divinity and holiness maybe not in the spiritual sense of the word this time round but because she is interested in making the life of other children and other forthcoming parents more affluent. 

She has offered, even though she has her own natural children to be a mum of a child who has no home, no parents that can take care of him or her. 

Not only that but she has helped set-up the Association of Adoptive Parents Malta to provide prospective adoptive parents with the much needed help, support and information they require. 

This was not enough. 

She has together with a number of colleagues set-up Agenzija Tama, another route for prospective parents to adopt, providing training, supporting couples and ensuring that the children who are 'born-again' to these parents stand in good stead. 

Marcelle Abela brings Frankincense to her narrative

Frankincense is a representation of righteousness, symbolic of Marcelle's willingness to become a sacrifice, wholly giving herself up and dedicating herself to the cause of her son Gabriel who has a rare condition we know very little about, Leukodystrophy.  This impairment is estimated to affect some 1 out of every 400,000 persons.

She has dedicated herself to her family, works hard to make Gabriel's life the most comfortable possible but like Debbie strives to improve other people's lives.

Marcelle has campaigned tenaciously to inform people on this condition, supports families who might be going through a similar hardship by sharing her story to give courage.  Not only that, she organizes fundraising activities to give money to other causes other than her own. 

She has also set up and administers a Facebook Page, Sunshine for Gabriel that is a growing point of reference for people who want to know more how 'children with Leukodystrophy face life on a day-to-day basis'.

Sarah Cachia - a narrative of Myrrh

As we all know, Myrrh is a spice used in embalming.  It is a substance that symbolizes sweetness, suffering, and affliction.

Sarah during these last two years or so has gone through what no mother should experience.  She has seen her son go from strength to poorly to the risk of losing him for good. 

But thank God, Jacob's resilience, his passion to live and the inner strength that has inspired a nation brought the best out of his mum. 

She fought, she believed, she prayed, she cried and the pain she had to endure, the long nights of waiting, the darkness that had encapsulated her made Jacob live - and she wanted others to learn from her pain. 

She formed the Facebook Page Survivors Malta because she wanted to talk positive and to share affirmative stories.

She inspired so many all over Malta to speak their hearts out, to believe that every cloud has a silver lining.  She has worked incessantly to propagate this message from dawn to dusk and works so hard to make sure that whoever is feeling down and worried, anxious or apprehensive, troubled, bothered and upset can hope that there is a tomorrow, there is a light in the distance and that belief is the last thing that one has to let go off. 

Like Marcelle and Debbie, Sarah has changed the bitterness into sweetness, suffering into optimism and affliction into opportunity. 

The narratives of these three wise women says it all and so I rest my case.

"Debbie, Marcelle and Sarah, I am infinitely and eternally appreciative for the narratives you chose to share with us."