Mother’s day - Pushing back against 90’s Church Status Quo
The American incarnation of Mother’s Day was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908 and became an official U.S. holiday in 1914. Jarvis would later denounce the holiday’s commercialization and spent the latter part of her life trying to remove it from the calendar.
Following her mother’s 1905 death, Anna Jarvis conceived of Mother’s Day as a way of honoring the sacrifices mothers made for their children.
Mother’s day is sometimes a celebration, but we acknowledge that it is also a difficult occasion that reminds the person of their grief…
Some are grieving separation…
Some are grieving a miscarriage or death of a child…
Some are grieving the abuse they experienced with their mom..
Some are grieving for their widowed mom…
Some are grieving the death of their mom…
Some are in a difficult season of motherhood…
Some are grieving infertility…
So today, we want to celebrate the healing that Jesus brings amid our various forms of sadness and loss.
As we celebrate resurrection and what the gospel means for all of humanity, may Jesus meet you right where you are at today and may you experience a little more healing today in Jesus’s name.
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