Daily Journal: 11 May

Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is the day when many people celebrate mothers. Not everyone feels likes celebrating though. Not everyone is in the space to celebrate. What then?

Mothers are not magical creatures who love perfectly. Mothers are firstly women, touched and shaped by their own back-stories and perhaps are deeply scarred and broken still.

Mother’s Day is often a day when women are venerated for wisdom, but not all mothers are wise or able to counsel wisely.

We don’t realise how nourishing wisdom is until it is neglected. God has counsel in the bible we can be taught by.

Read Proverbs 3 and be nourished.

Proverbs 3:21-26 (TLB)

Have two goals: wisdom—that is, knowing and doing right—and common sense. Don’t let them slip away, for they fill you with living energy and bring you honour and respect. They keep you safe from defeat and disaster and from stumbling off the trail. With them on guard you can sleep without fear; you need not be afraid of disaster or the plots of wicked men, for the Lord is with you; he protects you.

It’s not necessary to celebrate Mother’s Day but it might be difficult to stop thinking about disappointments on the day others are celebrating their family relationships.

How can we overcome the disappointments we’ve experienced with our mothers, or the disappointment we may have been to our own children?

We may need to own and identify mistakes and find restoration in our mother/child relationship, or we may to need to stop owning and identifying with another’s mistakes where the mother/child relationship is unbalanced.

Disappointment is real and can make us angry. When expectations are not only unmet, but destroyed and never acknowledged, emotions can be hard to resolve.

Whether you’re the mother or the child needing healing, run to your Heavenly Father, Creator God for healing and wisdom. He never forsakes us in our need.

Isaiah 49:15 (TLB)

“Never! Can a mother forget her little child and not have love for her own son? Yet even if that should be, I will not forget you.

The need to forgive and be forgiven is at the root of healing. Acknowledging God’s love for us and allowing for human incapacity is an enormous step forward towards reparation and resolve to a better outlook or outcome.

I pray that through any disappointment you may be feeling, that you will find nourishment through the wisdom of Proverbs 3, and it will rest on you and travel with you over the next year.