Every time I go online these days, I’m flooded with messages about Mother’s Day and every single one reminds me, Lord that my mother’s no longer with me because she’s with you now in heaven…
It was 34 years ago that Ruth, your daughter, my mother, passed from this life to life with you forever and yet I still have the impulse to write a card, to buy a gift, to send flowers – to be with her -on this second weekend in May…
The Mothers Day ads are bittersweet, Lord: reminding me of the wonderful woman
who birthed me, loved me and raised me; they remind me that she’s gone, that now the world’s a different place…
So, tonight I pray for all of us whose mothers you’ve called home, especially for sons and daughters whose loss and grief are fresh and more keenly, deeply felt…
Recall, renew, refresh in us our best maternal memories and with your gentle grace, Lord, heal the loss that’s hard to bear…
We place our trust in you, Lord, taking comfort in our hope that joy will come when once again we’ll know our mothers’ love, when you gather us together in your kingdom, in your love, in your mercy, in your peace – like a mother, in your arms…
Protect us, Lord, while we’re awake and watch over us when we fall asleep, that awake, we might keep watch with you and asleep, rest in your peace…
Faithful Mother
