Devotions
Mother’s Day conjures up images of breakfast in bed, bouquets of flowers and special meals surrounded by grateful children. Yet this is not always the way it is. Mother’s Day can also be filled with complicated emotions. Perhaps you are grieving the recent loss of your mother or child, or maybe you are estranged from your children, or you desire to have a child, but things have not worked out as you had hoped.
Today is Mother’s Day. This special day comes around once a year, and we stop to honor our mothers and all those women who exemplify the wisdom, grace, and influence of godly mothers. Yet each year I am reminded that though this may be a happy Mother’s Day for some, it is not for others. It is a difficult day for those who have lost their mothers, especially recently.
Have you ever seen a hen protecting her young? She gets vicious. When she senses a threat to her chicks, she puffs up, spreads her wings, and clucks to alert her young ones to shelter under her protective feathers. That’s what a mother does. She protects. On this Mother’s Day, we stop collectively to honor the phenomenal women who protected us in the womb and then gave us life. They did not just give us life, they cradled us, nurtured us, continued to protect us, disciplined us, taught us, prayed for us, and hopefully pointed us to, or led us to Christ. In the end that is all that counts.
