Two Mother’s Day essays for those women struggling with Mother’s Day
By Elizabeth Prata
SYNOPSIS
In this essay I reflect on the complexities of motherhood, highlighting both the ideal, and the painful realities some experience, particularly with non-believing mothers whose beliefs contradict their actions. Sunny Shell offers compassion and encouragement, while Dayspring McLeod discusses biblical infertility, emphasizing it as a chance for God’s transformative work, urging faith amid challenges.
Sunny Shell: Celebrating a Different Kind of Mother
Though she’s not perfect, her life exudes the aroma of Christ and is a cherished blessing to her husband, her children and others close to her.
But this picturesque vision of a mother is not true for everyone. Some of us grew up in homes with parents who were atheists, agnostics, followers of false religions, or even worse…some of you were raised in homes with mothers who professed to be a Christian, but neither her living nor teachings were in accord with God’s word and she defiled your mind and polluted your heart with the vulgar, self-centered, and obscene things of this world.
Please read more from the headline link. Sunny writes with sensitivity and compassion.
When Mother’s Day is hard By Dayspring McLeod, at the Christian Focus
Infertility in the Bible is always presented as an opportunity for God to do something wonderful. Every single time. All the women of Israel we see struggling to conceive, and crying out – Sarah, Rebekah, Hannah, Rachel, Elisabeth – went on to have children who heralded great changes in God’s master plan. …
Not every woman who experiences childlessness will have this kind of miracle. Very often, God chooses to do a ‘new thing’ when we would prefer our own desire, our own solution. But as ‘God among us’ was a miracle, so ‘God through us’ is as well. What the Almighty can accomplish through a woman who offers Him her broken heart has no bounds.
Please read more at the headline link.
Matthew 19:29 assures us, “And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.” (KJV)
