Moms Everywhere!

Instead of boring everyone's socks off with the cushy lurvy durby bits of mother's day. I will write about what REALLY touched my heart (and yes, I had a lovely one!)

We had an excellent sermon in church. Of course the theme was moms but based on the "point of view" of the young and sweet virgin Mary (from the Bible, in case some of you are not aware!!). I have an attrocious memory in recalling details and I can't take notes but it went along the lines of this: "Joy & Pain of Motherhood!"

The grateful attitude of a mom: Every mom rejoice at her gifts (children) and on the news of their impending birth, it is usually an exciting journey to know that we are the bearers of GOD's creation. Mary had a moment of "what?!? why me?" but she soon realise the enormity of such a role. Mary quickly turned her thoughts and heart to worship God and all that He has done. Do we honour and continue to stand in awe at what God has done in the live of our kids? Do we pray enough for his will to be done? I knew I did a bit of praising and praying that but when the kids came out healthy, I just let life take over. Do we stop to consider those around us who had no such "luxury' of having little ones? How would they feel? I was touched and reminded that these gifts are only with us but for a short time. Our job are as stewards and we MUST NOT stop praying and interceeding for them.

Young Mary (Jesus's mother) learnt to release her child. Jesus quickly grew into ministry and "left" his parents to fulfill His heavenly role. I struggle with this issue very much as I am determined in my heart that my girls are not to move out of my home until they get married. The training ground is releasing them to grow up within the perils of the world. What a mess of a world they have to face. And them being precious little girls too, I am very protective towards them! Every mom wants to prevent the kids from hurt, pain and mess-ups. My girls are still tiny in the scheme of things yet, they go through enough dissapointment (mostly self inflicted) to cause plenty of scars and tears. Do we think of those moms around us who's kids are involved in life threatening habits? Do we support those moms in abusive households? Do we reach out to help those moms who's kids have moved out?

Pain, the final bit that opened all the flood gates for me was when we were reminded of those moms who gave birth to children with deformity and disability. Their pain and the children's pain is 24/7 for the rest of the child's waking life. How much can we endure? At what cost is a mother's love? Who can we encourage? I wasn't even able to cope when Mathena was in hospital for 2 days....dare I think the stuff these women face for the rest of the child's life?

We had our senior pastor and his wife share the sermon. There were both endearing and loving all the way. Plenty of jokes but sweet moments, inserted with videos of their own children's point of views. He ended with all husbands should love their wives like Christ loves the church. A common one? He suggested the how, that husbands should:
"protect their wives as they ARE the weaker one",
"should not use his strength to overpower wives",
"should love and honour wives",
"should never push wives for manly own needs (S word)",
"should show the children how to love their moms",
"should always understand that their wives get tired from trying to be a good wife",
"should take her as his equal" and
"should never belittle her" as "ALL moms have dreams and desires to be the best wife and mother".

I might have lost some points along the translation...but it sums up an excellent "How to Make a Mother Happy" for me on Mother's day!!

I am Happy!