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Hey Friends 🙂
As we thank God for our moms (and moms-in-law) and celebrate this Mother’s Day this weekend, may I encourage you to prayerfully consider anyone who might need some extra love this Mother’s Day?
- Who do you know who will be going through a “first” Mother’s Day without their mom?
- Who has a strained relationship with their mom?
- Who lives far away from their family?
- Who recently experienced a miscarriage? Loss of a child?
- Who do you know who desperately wants to be a mom, but is childless at this time?
I have one close friend who dreads Mother’s Day every year.
She is currently unable to have children, and I have learned much journeying with her. For years, my friend would skip church on Mother’s Day Sunday, because when all the mom’s were asked to stand up, it was too painful.
Can you imagine? Desperately wanting to be a mom, and watching while all the mothers in the room stand and receive a rose and a round of applause?
My girls and I have started a tradition of bringing her flowers, but Mother’s Day is a day she wishes she could fast forward through.
As we celebrate this weekend, may we be mindful of others as well, and look for ways to share hope, joy, and peace, for those who will be having a hard time on Mother’s Day.
For suggestions on things to say/not say, you may find my post on “What Should I Say?“ helpful.
How about for you? Are you looking forward to Mother’s Day? Do have have a favorite Mother’s Day tradition?
Me & My Mom
I’m guessing my gang will serve me breakfast in bed (including a Starbucks vanilla latte). My son Jake usually whips up a delicious breakfast tray.
We’re having a Qdoba lunch at my house. Yum! And we’ll bring flowers and cards to those who are having a hard day.
I’m thanking God for my amazing, generous, grace-filled mom (who always takes the kids for sleepovers ~ bless you, sweet mama!!!!).
- Me & My “Mom in Love” Jackie
…..I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers….
Thanks for stopping by *She Sparkles*! May you sense God’s presence with you….whatever you do!
P.S. For a beautiful post from a friend who is celebrating her first Mother’s Day without her mom here on earth, check out Tracy’s heart-touching thoughts here.
Cindy- this will be 5 year without my mom and honestly- it never gets easier. What I hold to is the legacy she left behind, the Christian example of motherhood she was and I celebrate the years that she had with my kids. We should always live each day as a gift and thank God for His many blessings. I have a friend who buried his wife today who lost her battle with thyroid cancer. She left behind 2 kids, the same age as mine. I will be praying as they celebrate without her this Sunday.
Cindy, this is SO right where I am this Mother’s Day! I am feeling led to reach-out to mothers in our community who are struggling because, by the grace of God, it could have been me and still could be me. For the first time ever, my friends and I are assembling Mother’s Day presents for the four women living in our local domestic abuse shelter so they know they are SEEN and not forgotten. Just like Hagar at the well.
Thank you for this.
Bless you for sharing this.