A Mother’s Love

A Mother’s Love

Happy Mother’s Day! We have been blessed by the Lord to gather again in his name, and I’m prayerful that we will leave this place more filled than when we arrived.  I suppose it’s okay if we come on Sunday mornings out of a sense of obligation to God, but it’s far better if we come because we truly want to be here. God has been good to us even in ways we haven’t noticed, so we should always be thankful from the heart. That’s part of why we offer our worship to the Lord.

We also come together to build each other up. As the Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 12:15, we are told to “rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.” God calls us together to be his family so that we can feel that kind of genuine support. We’re here for one another in the good times and in the bad, and we’ve been blessed in recent weeks to do a lot of rejoicing. We’ve rejoiced together as many have confessed Jesus as the Christ and been baptized into him. We’ve had the chance to celebrate an upcoming wedding, a new pregnancy, birthdays, anniversaries, and other pieces of good news. 

Today, we have another good thing to celebrate.  A number of years ago, we started a tradition here at Manchester of making Mother’s Day more inclusive and honoring all our ladies. This is one of my favorite Sundays for reasons you’ll see later when our children bless all the ladies with roses. Please enjoy those few minutes, and try to soak up the love and appreciation we are trying to show the ladies of this church. It’ll do your heart good, and I’m confident that it pleases God as we mimic the love he models for us.  

— Patrick Barber

A Mother’s Love – Mother’s Day 2023

Digging Deeper:

1. What’s a favorite memory you have of your mother?
2. What are some motherly attributes we find in God?
3. In what ways do you let people know that you care about them?