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.