Devotions
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.
