Title: Mother's Day Reflections
Author: Brian Fletcher
Text: Luke 1:30-33
I was preparing to write a Mother's Day sermon and I realized (obviously!) that I am not a mother. How do I have the right to write a Mother's Day sermon? The only things I know about motherhood are from what I have learned from my wife, my own mom, and the mothers I interact with in my community. Shouldn't a Mother's Day sermon come from a mother?
Now, I can encourage, lift up, and celebrate mothers and that is what we normally do in a Mother's Day sermon. The Scriptures teach us a great deal about motherhood, it's trials, it's beauty, it's purpose and significance, as well as how it points us to Jesus. So, technically, I could write one, and I have. However, this particular sermon was written by my daughter-in-law, Rachel Fletcher (https://substack.com/@rachelfletcherwrites). Rachel has a deep personal faith as well as extraordinary writing and communicating skills. I asked her to write some reflections on motherhood. I hope you enjoy and learn from these as much as I have...
Growing up, I remember a few years when my mom's main Mother's Day request was that we, her four daughters, would get through the day without arguing. I'm not sure we ever once pulled through for her. We don't do a great job of honoring mothers, do we?
On one hand, it's easy to make jokes or make light of how much mothers do and how we so imperfectly and incompletely succeed in celebrating them today and every day. It's also easy on this day, set apart to honor mothers, to wound countless others. Those wanting and waiting to become mothers. Those whose mothers abandoned them, physically or emotionally, by choice or through no fault of their own. Those who are mothers in everything but name.
Our experiences of mothers run the gamut; even the best mothers are imperfect and flawed, and even the worst are missed and longed for.
Given all that, I'd venture to say that almost no one here feels great ...
Author: Brian Fletcher
Text: Luke 1:30-33
I was preparing to write a Mother's Day sermon and I realized (obviously!) that I am not a mother. How do I have the right to write a Mother's Day sermon? The only things I know about motherhood are from what I have learned from my wife, my own mom, and the mothers I interact with in my community. Shouldn't a Mother's Day sermon come from a mother?
Now, I can encourage, lift up, and celebrate mothers and that is what we normally do in a Mother's Day sermon. The Scriptures teach us a great deal about motherhood, it's trials, it's beauty, it's purpose and significance, as well as how it points us to Jesus. So, technically, I could write one, and I have. However, this particular sermon was written by my daughter-in-law, Rachel Fletcher (https://substack.com/@rachelfletcherwrites). Rachel has a deep personal faith as well as extraordinary writing and communicating skills. I asked her to write some reflections on motherhood. I hope you enjoy and learn from these as much as I have...
Growing up, I remember a few years when my mom's main Mother's Day request was that we, her four daughters, would get through the day without arguing. I'm not sure we ever once pulled through for her. We don't do a great job of honoring mothers, do we?
On one hand, it's easy to make jokes or make light of how much mothers do and how we so imperfectly and incompletely succeed in celebrating them today and every day. It's also easy on this day, set apart to honor mothers, to wound countless others. Those wanting and waiting to become mothers. Those whose mothers abandoned them, physically or emotionally, by choice or through no fault of their own. Those who are mothers in everything but name.
Our experiences of mothers run the gamut; even the best mothers are imperfect and flawed, and even the worst are missed and longed for.
Given all that, I'd venture to say that almost no one here feels great ...
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