You are invited to the in-person Mother’s Day Service on May 14 at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
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Mother’s Day Sunday
Sunday, May 14, 2023, 10 am
Children’s Time “How Is God Like a Mother?” Pastor John
Choir Anthem Thank you, Lord, for Mother’s Dear
Words & Music by Joe E. Parks
Message “Motherhood and Womanhood” Rev. John Song
On this Mother’s Day, we will look at the journey of womanhood that often gets radically altered with the responsibility of becoming a mother. We will play with that as we examine the meaning of “Motherhood and Womanhood.”
If you think back to just 100 years ago, women’s lives were so completely different than women’s lives today. As modern women they have immense amounts of freedom compared to their grandmothers and their grandmothers: the freedom to vote, the freedom to partner with whom they choose, the freedom to work at any job they want.
Heather Ash writes, “Yet what I’ve noticed is while we are externally free, we are not internally free. We are still bound by the chains of our own judgment, comparison, fears, and lack of self-worth.”
The Mother
By Kahlil Gibran from “The Broken Wings”, a poetic novel set in Beirut
The most beautiful word on the lips of mankind is the word “Mother,”
and the most beautiful call is the call of “My mother.”
It is a word full of hope and love,
a sweet and kind word coming from the depths of the heart.
The mother is everything –
she is our consolation in sorrow,
our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.
She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness….
Everything in nature bespeaks the mother.
The sun is the mother of earth and gives it its nourishment of heart;
it never leaves the universe at night until it has put the earth to sleep to the song of the sea and the hymn of birds and brooks.
And this earth is the mother of trees and flowers.
It produces them, nurses them, and weans them.
The trees and flowers become kind mothers of their great fruits and seeds.
And the mother, the prototype of all existence, is the eternal spirit, full of beauty and love.
