Happy Mother's Day!
I hope all that are reading this today are enjoying time with their friends and family! Take time to really honor your mom (if still alive) or time to honor and grieve her loss.
Mother's Day this year is a mixed bag for me. Being a man, you may ask 'why?'
I love my mother but each year I miss my grandmother more. She had a profound impact upon my life.
This year the mixed bag comes from having lived through two miscarriages with my wife. It's hard to understand what she's feeling. I'm feeling similar thoughts, feelings, etc as she is...but then I also see how it has affected her physically...and that's where the mixed bag comes in.
How do you help someone you love so much walk through this? Trusting in God is always the 'correct' answer...spending time in prayer, etc. But when you're good at fixing stuff and this you can't fix...when you usually know the right things to do...and nothing seems to fit. AAAGGH! I feel like a helpless Charlie Brown as Lucy pulls away the ball. I fly up in the air and land flat on my back! WHOOMP! All the air knocked out of me.
But slowly God is blowing wind back into our sails -- He is always good, and He knows how to take good care of us!
Those are the thoughts behind the smile today!
I hope you enjoy your day! God's best to you!
posted by Chris @ 7:03 PM
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I have been very blessed to have a continuing, great relationship with my mother. I love having Mother's Day to take a little extra care to let her know how much she is loved, and to aknowledge all that she has given and sacrificed for my brother and I.
I can not imagine the loss of a child. Though I have had several friends who have lost pregnancies, and two friends loose a child who was already born, The reality of what it must feel like escapes me. I imagine though, that loosing a child is the kids of thing that only God can heal. And although it may sound trite to say that Prayer is what you can do, we know the real power that prayer has. We know, through life experience, that God truely can heal our inner wounds.
How amazing to have a God, creator of the universe, who cares when we are hurting, and takes time to comfort us.
Wow. I think I know just what you are feeling. Feeling helpless when a loved one is hurting is really, really tough.
On the other hand, if you could solve every problem that your loved ones faced, why would they need God? For me, that's a big, bitter pill to swallow, but it's medicine that I often need.
I will be praying for you both. For the entire family, actually.
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