Mother’s Day
It’s a wonderfully white frost outside. So clear and clean looking, but oh so cold!! I feel for those who have to work outside before the sun gives its warmth and for those who are homeless. Life can be challenging at times. We all need warmth.
It’s Mothers Day on Sunday. Each of us begins our journey of life completely dependent upon our mothers as we develop in the womb. After we are born our mothers and fathers help us to become independent. Ever so slowly compared to other mammals we learn to develop our skills to be able to feed, clothe, toilet ourselves, and even stand on our two feet and then we need to learn to clean and wash, tidy up and develop all the fine motor skills as well as learn useful communication. No wonder mothers get so tired, for developing independence is not only tiring for the young, it’s also tiring for the parents.
Mothers deserve our heart felt thanks and praise.
After we become independent we continue to develop so that we become interdependent.
Jesus in talking with his disciples before the Ascension talked about them being his friends not his servants. It’s about being a team, a community, a body where all belong to work with God to bring peace and hope and love into existence in the very places we inhabit. We are now co-workers with God.
The warmth of God’s love and forgiveness is given in abundance to us so that we may help warm the world.
Have you noticed
Young people are part of our church.
Young people are important in the church not because they are the church of tomorrow but because they are part of the church of today.
Jesus was quite clear that young children belonged with him. He also spoke about each of us needing to be like a child in our receiving the kingdom of God.
Taking a child he says "Whoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me..."
Children have an important part to play in the church. They can often ask the simple question we all want answered; they often look for the profound in the simple things.
They can lead us to remember how God is with us in things we often overlook.
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