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Proverbs chapter 31 verse 31 Proverbs chapter 31 verse 31 I would encourage

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you to read the whole chapter if you've never read it I suspect if you've been

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to a church service on Mother's Day many times you have probably heard Proverbs

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31 often it's a really good it's a really good chapter there's a good

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reason for that it really is a good a good chapter it's it's the words of a

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king by the name of Lemuel and their words of Lemuel given to him by his

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mother it's good advice it's good advice for men and looking for a wife it's good

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advice and women on how to be a good wife and how to be a good mother and so

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it's a good chapter we're not going to look at all of it today for time's sake

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but we will look at the very last verse Proverbs chapter 31 verse 31 this is

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speaking of the good wife and the good mother it says give her the reward of

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her labor and let her works be prayed let her works praise her at the city

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gates let's pray father God we come to you today and we thank you for a good

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day I pray dear Lord that your Holy Spirit would be among us today I pray

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that you would just open our ears and open our hearts today as we come to hear

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your word as we come to honor our mothers I pray God that you would hide

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me behind the cross that you would help me to preach and teach words and are

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gonna bring glory to you dear Lord words that are gonna be good for us today dear

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Lord we need you to speak to us and I pray that you would God I pray that you

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take away any nerves or pride that I have dear Lord that I would be faithful

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to preach and teach your word I pray for each of these mothers who are here today

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and their children and their grandchildren who are with them that you

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would just bless their time together dear Lord I pray for the mothers that

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maybe today is a tough day for them or the children maybe today is a tough day

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for them that you just bring us comfort God even in the midst of our rejoicing

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today and I ask these things in Jesus name amen mothers are important mothers

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have I would venture to say the most important job in the world mothers have

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to raise children and that I would imagine I can only guess would be a very

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difficult thing but yet oftentimes when we look around at mothers we see we see

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something special we see something beautiful we see sacrifice we see love

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that probably is greater than than any love we can experience in this world

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apart from that of God and the scripture here gives us really a simple instruction

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and that is that we do we honor that we reward that we that we praise the

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mothers in our life that us men praise the good wives that we have in our life

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now we're doing that in a small portion today now we made a little bit of food

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and us men are honored to be able to do so to honor you ladies but but we know

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that's not enough we know that pills and comparison you cook for us 365 days a

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year and we make one dinner for you it's not much but it's the best we can do or

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maybe it ain't the best we can do but it's the best we can do today and we're

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going to do that today and and maybe you husbands and you children maybe you want

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to do this a little more often for your mothers but but we come here on today

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and we come to we come to honor our mothers we come to celebrate what

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motherhood is maybe you don't know the history of Mother's Day and and we

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won't go into all of it because in some ways it's kind of a sad story but but

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back in the 1800s there was a lady by the name of Ann Jarvis and she really

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had a heart for mothers and particularly teaching mothers how to be good mothers

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and and helping mothers that were struggling there were a lot of disease

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in that time and and a lot of hardship it was hard times in those days and so

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she formed these groups that would be that would be Mother's Day work groups

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in which she would I guess we could say minister to the ladies and these groups

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now I don't know if she was a Christian lady or not but but nonetheless she was

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offering support to mothers in the area well after some time miss Jarvis passed

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away and her daughter Anna Jarvis wanted to carry on in some way what her mother

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had started and so in 1908 it became official at least to some degree Anna

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Jarvis held a ceremony the second Sunday in May in 1908 she had had one the year

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before and it didn't catch much traction but in 1908 she had another ceremony to

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celebrate her mother and to encourage others to celebrate their mothers and it

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wasn't long after that till the state made it a holiday and only a few years

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after that in 1914 that the president made it a national holiday and it is

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spread through the world since that time and so we are still carrying on that

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tradition of honoring our mothers of honoring our mothers who do so much for

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us and so we come here on days like today to to do that now I hope that

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you've given your mom a card you've told her you've loved her maybe you took her

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out to eat maybe you did something nice for her I'll tell you this story while

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we're here this is not a good story this is what you don't want to do by the way

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husbands and children so I decided that I was going to take my mother to dinner

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Friday night nothing fancy I've heard a recommendation hey there's a place you

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need to try out it's pretty good you probably enjoy it I said all right I've

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never been there before I'll go and the person who told me couldn't remember

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the name but they said well it's the it's a real new place in Jackson

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Louisiana or to be easy to find if you've ever been to Jackson Louisiana

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ain't many places to eat there so I got online and I found the newest restaurant

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in Jackson Louisiana and the pictures looked pretty good and and I took my

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mother's there for Mother's Day and I was sorely disappointed this was the

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worst meal that you have ever eaten in your life I took my mother to the worst

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place you could possibly take her it took us an hour to get the food and I

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kid you not we could barely choke it down it was horrible and so I said to

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myself I have really set the bar for my sister for whatever she takes her she

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could have took her to Burger King for Mother's Day and she would have surpassed

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me this year so then we leave that place and and we go to the place we should have

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been I went to the wrong place and had dessert and then after we got through at

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that we were we were swarmed by termites that were thousands of like a plague in

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Jackson Louisiana and then on the way back home we stopped and pick up our dog

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to take a moment our dog peed all over

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happy Mother's Day happy Mother's Day but but he but even stories like that I

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suppose are good because 20 years from now we'll look back and say remember

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when we went that place on Mother's Day and it was horrible and we got swarmed by

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those those termites but we need to do something for our mothers and we need to

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try to do the best that we can to honor our mothers Mother's Day is a beautiful

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day now I can only imagine the joy that a mother must feel when they when they

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find out that they have conceived and will soon give birth to a child I suspect

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that that is probably a feeling that is the greatest feeling you could ever

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possibly get maybe maybe the process of pregnancy in and of itself is is somewhat

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of a of a of a preview of what is to come there's great joy and there's great

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pain and there's great joy that's kind of probably what it's like to raise a kid

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you bring them into the world and it's a joy and then they begin to grow up and

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and then they get to be teenagers and then there's a lot of pain that comes

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with a child but but nonetheless in the midst of the joy and of the pain there

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is there's something beautiful about a woman who gives birth to a child there's

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something beautiful about a child that comes into our world and it and it

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saddens me and probably some of you too that our world doesn't see that beauty

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today our world doesn't doesn't appreciate motherhood our world doesn't

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appreciate children many times you see that to be the case and and it's sad

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that something so beautiful that God has given us the job that he gave his people

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to to be fruitful and multiply I believe that God still wants us to do that today

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there are people still leaving this world and there need to be children

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born into this world and there need to be good mothers who raise those children

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and who part impart onto those children wisdom and teach them right and wrong

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and who love them and who correct them I'm sure that's probably one of the

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toughest part of being a mother it's probably not hard to love you too well

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maybe sometimes it's hard to love but you do anyway but I bet it's hard to

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discipline them but yet these are all parts of being a mother and I can only

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imagine the joy of a mother bringing a child into this world and raising that

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child up watching it go to kindergarten shedding a few tears a few years later

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watching it graduate high school a few years later it's it's graduating college

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it's making its way into the into the workforce it's getting married and

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moving away and there's a part of that that's probably really sad for a mother

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I can only imagine but then there's a part of that that probably brings you

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joy to know that your child has grown up that they become an adult and then

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probably the best part of that is when they get married and begin to have

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children of their own then you get grandchildren I don't have children our

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grandchildren but I see a lot of you that's got grandkids and I see how you

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treat them there's probably something special about grandchildren you don't

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really have to worry about raising them so much you just can spoil it's the

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mama's job to raise them let mama deal with the raisin she can get on to them

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you don't have to get on to them you just buy them ice cream and so there's a

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certain joy that comes childhood motherhood comes with joys and it comes

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with difficulties but I suspect that if I were to poll all the mothers in this

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church today that not a single one of you would trade it for the world there's

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something special about a mother because there aren't many people in this world

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that you can call children that would give up everything for you that would do

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anything for you that would be there in a moment's notice but there's one and

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that's your mother mothers will give up everything a mother would give up her

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own life to save her child there's no question motherhood is a beautiful thing

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so we come today and we and we celebrate our mothers but that's really only half

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of the story the other half of the story is that Mother's Day is also a difficult

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day too about three years ago I remember very well it's three years ago three

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mother's days ago we were I remember what I preached that day probably

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Proverbs 31 and and I made a brief mention just just real briefly didn't

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think much about it at the time that and we need to remember our mothers who may

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be struggling today and I didn't think much about that at the time but after

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the service a mother come to me and said I thank you for remembering the rest of

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us today and it struck me as I begin to think about Mother's Day I begin to

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think about well certainly there's a lot to celebrate and there's a lot of joy

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praise the Lord it comes on Mother's Day but I guess I really kind of failed to

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realize that Mother's Day is not easy for everybody for some mothers today it may

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be very difficult because the fact of the matter is that there are some

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mothers today who have lost children and there's no greater love that a mother

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has for a child and I can only imagine that there's no greater loss that a

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mother can feel than losing their child it doesn't matter if they are young it

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doesn't matter if they are old I have heard mothers say before a mother should

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never have to bury her child and so for some of you mothers today it's probably

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a difficult day and we want to celebrate our mothers today but I want to

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encourage you today that we want to pray for those moms who are having a hard day

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today that we want to be there for them that in the midst of our joy and our

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celebration and our smiles as good as it is and as right as that is we want to

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remember that there are there are mothers that are having a hard day today

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we want to remember those mothers today want you to know that that God loves you

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today that God will give you strength today today may also be a difficult day

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for children as well perhaps there are some in here who have lost their mother

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perhaps in the years that she was alive and the years you had her mother's day

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was a good day but I suspect for many of us today we think back at our mothers

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the mothers of our children our grandmothers who are no longer with us

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and there's a certain sadness that comes with that today and it's okay for us to

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cry today it's all right to shed a tear today mother who's lost a child it's

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all right today child to shed a tear for the mother or the grandmother you've

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laughed excuse me that you've that you've lost and even have a laugh in the

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midst of that loss in the midst of our tears we need to think back at the good

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days we need to think back at the stories where your kid take you to the

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worst restaurant ever into a plague of termites and get peed on by your dog and

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laugh at those stories and we all probably have some stories like that so

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even in the midst of our tears today we need we need to laugh a little bit we

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need to remember that God is good that God comforts us on day like today we

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need to remember for perhaps some children who maybe didn't have so good a

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mother now I know this is hard and this is heavy but this is also reality for us

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perhaps today in our day of rejoicing it may need to be a day of healing I know

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that there are some whose mothers probably weren't very good to them and

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probably didn't do them right but perhaps today is the day for forgiveness

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perhaps today is the day that you need to say you know what mom I forgive you

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mom I don't know why you did what you did it wasn't right and I've struggled

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with that but mom I forgive you today perhaps there are some today who are

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hurting you say man this is heavy this is a heavy passage for Mother's Day I

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know it is but this is reality this is this is reality there's some today who

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are hurting and we don't want to laugh and smile today and pretend like all is

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well when when there's two sides to Mother's Day and and the mothers who

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were never able to have a child there's certainly some of those in this room

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today I suspect there's some in this room today and there's there's pain that

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comes with that and sometimes we try to do things we we see we see women who

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aren't able to have children and we say things to them like but you're a mother

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to everybody else and we have good intentions when we say those things but

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sometimes those things hurt because I suspect that it's a painful thing for a

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woman who's not able to have a child when they desperately want to have a

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child so we want to remember those women today we want to remember those mothers

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today we want to remember those children today and we want to know that God is

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good today God's Word even describes God as a mother and Isaiah 66 Isaiah 66 the

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first part of verse 13 as a mother comforts her son so I will comfort you

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what a beautiful passage for us to think about this morning that God is our

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comfort even if our mothers fail that God does not even if we as children fail

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our mothers that God is good and so we want to celebrate our mothers today we

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want to rejoice in our mothers today Psalm chapter 27 verse 10 says even if

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my father and mother abandoned me the Lord cares for me we come today to praise

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the Lord we come today to rejoice at our mothers perhaps we come today to honor

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our mothers and we come to smile and we come to laugh but but perhaps there are

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some of you today and you come and you you need to grieve perhaps there are

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some today that you come and you shed a tear and you you mourn your mother the

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loss of your mother perhaps there are some today you come and maybe your

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relationship with your mom's not very good maybe today is the day you need to

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fix it maybe it's your fault maybe it's her fault but regardless of whose fault

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it is perhaps today is the day that you need to give your mom a call perhaps

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the day is the day that you need to say mom I forgive you and I still love you

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so let us rejoice as we get ready to go back here and eat this feast and eat

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this good meal let us let us laugh and let us smile and let us rejoice that

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God has given us the gift of mothers today and let us remember those mothers

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who may has lost a child today or those mothers who never were or those children

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who may struggle on days like today let us remember those let us give them

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strength let's give them comfort and let us lift them up let's pray God we come

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to you today and we thank you for our mothers dear Lord I I pray God that you

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be with those that may be having a bad day today maybe there are some God who

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have lost children today and this day is tough for them I pray that you'd

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strengthen them I pray that you would encourage them dear Lord I pray that

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they'd feel your love today and the love of these brothers and sisters in Christ

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around them God I pray that you would be with maybe those in this room that were

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never able to have children dear Lord I I'm sure that there's got to be some

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pain and sadness that comes with that God I pray that you would encourage

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them I pray that you would strengthen them today God I pray that you'd let

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them know that they're not forgotten dear Lord even on Mother's Day God I pray

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for any children today that maybe just their relationship with their mother has

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has been tough for whatever reason I pray God that today would be a day of

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restoration God if there are things that need to be dealt with I pray God that you

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just would help them to be dealt with but God maybe there needs to be

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forgiveness today maybe there are some others that need to forgive their

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children or some children who need to forgive their mothers maybe there are

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some broken relationships dear Lord and I pray today that those relationships are

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broken that you would you would you'd put them back together dear Lord that

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you'd mend them I pray that you would help whatever barriers that are there be

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shattered God if there are some that need to reach out to their mother today

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I pray that they would or maybe even a mother to reach out to their child God I

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thank you for the mothers that we have I thank you for them good grandmothers and

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the mothers that have been good to us that have provided for us dear Lord what

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a beautiful gift you give us and motherhood dear Lord I pray that you

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would help our world to appreciate women and mothers and children and the beauty

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of what you've given us dear Lord God we thank you for our fathers but there's

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something different about our mothers they love us in a way that we cannot

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even imagine dear Lord so I pray that as children we would not take our mothers

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for granted and God I pray that you just bless our mothers that you keep the

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mothers here today safe and healthy I pray that as we get ready to go back

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here and eat that you bless this food I thank you for the workers that have

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worked on it and I pray that these women will be blessed and and getting to eat

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it today God maybe there are some today that do not know Jesus as their Lord and

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Savior God I pray that if they never put faith in Jesus Christ that they would

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today and I pray that as we get ready to dismiss dear Lord that if there's

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anything on anybody's heart that they just give it to you this morning and I

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ask these things in Jesus name amen