Sunflower Faith

Good evening gentle readers!

I pray that you had a good mother’s day.

Here at Sunflower Faith, it was an eventful weekend.

Our youngest wasn’t feeling well due to teething, but we Praise God that as the day wore on and she (and us) were able to get some much needed rest, we were blessed in the afternoon with the gathering of my mother in law, my sister in law and her kids, my husband and our kids and a fitting reminder of God’s promise and presence in our lives.

As I sat down to work on some thoughts regarding about our day, God led my heart to an article that is on Crosswalk.com about Mother’s Day and with that several thoughts.

Did you know that the first “Mother’s day” was celebrated at Andrew’s Church in Philedelphia, in 1908? Wow. How much fitting to celebrate the most precious role a woman would play, than that of being a mother?

According to Salary.com, a “stay at home mom” would be worth approximately $117,000, give or take a few.Even with this thought, it doesn’t matter if you are worked or stay at home; What greater gift or challenge exists than being a mom?

This doesn’t mean if you don’t have children….one doesn’t have a worth. God blesses us and we are all blessed whether we are a mother or not because the reality is that even though we may not be a mother, we all do have a mother at one point or another in our life and today is a a blessed reminder of the lives of the many women before us, who at one time or another played an impact in our lives.

As a mother, she is just as human as the next. She doesn’t get paid or notice often for being a mom except in tears, joys and the gift of playing a pivotal part in the life and development of a child. We sometimes get so caught up in the idea of perfection, that we can easily forget and take for granted the role that all mothers performed.

It’s easy to get caught up with the demands and pressures of a secular world that expects perfection that doesn’t exist except through Jesus Christ who is the only person who is perfect.

Mothering is the most significant, demanding, and underpaid profession around…We strongly believe that God ordained the specialness and importance of mothering:’Honor your mother and your father’ is a recurring theme throughout the entire Bible.”- Henry Cloud and John Townsend

Some moms are celebrities and have every move documented, but there are many moms out there, whose lives will go unnoticed except for the one set of lives they do and will have touched directly: that of their children.

They are the ones, whose children will have first contact through the world through; Their moms are the ones who initially and will always play a pivotal role in their social, emotional,mental and physical development.

Some of us may never know our moms, Some of us may know them;Some may call people who share the same DNA,”mom”, and some are blessed with moms who God had called to be their mom and is a mom no matter what the connection.

We may have good relationships with our moms; We may have bad relationships with our moms, but no matter what….on this day, we are reminded that no matter where we are in our lives…these are the people whose lives helped shaped us and lead us to be the people we are.

Some of us are moms many times over. Some of us are moms for the first time. Some of us are now blessed to see those whose lives,God blessed us with, become or are moms now.

Through it all…Our Heavenly Father has blessed us with a foundation that no matter which path, good or bad, is a root from which we grow from.

Linore Rose Burkad seem to sum it up best in her article,“Mom’s Profound Influence on Her Children”,”As mothers, we share the same ability to influence our children to be their best. It’s really no less than astonishing, the degree to which we can make a difference in young lives!”

No matter where we are in life as a mother….the unifying factor is that it’s through Jesus Christ,living through us, that our children learn, grow and embrace life.

It doesn’t matter if we worked at home or if we are a stay at home mom, either way, we play a pivatol role in our children lives.

I watched my children play with their cousins and I contemplate the blessing that God had gifted me, being their mother and being blessed with a mother in law, who in turn was the mother of my husband.

Today was a special day, because no matter what or where we were…my mother in law, myself, my sister in law and one day, our daughters too….were and are mothers, who, through our faith in Jesus Christ, our children’s lives were and are impacted, touched and guided.

Just as much as we were reminded about the impact our own mothers, we are also reminded that there are many,many generations of mothers who have impacted and touched us for bad or for good.

As mothers, no matter what status we are,married,single,foster,adopted, stepmother, widowed, even as non-mothers but just as “substitute or role”, we are all in a precious position of being of service to God, like the many mothers before us, who were there to shaped us so that we too can be in a position to guide and shape our own children and the lives of everyone else around us.

It is a reminder of the calling and role we all have.

God doesn’t make a mistake.

Everything has happen and will happen to perfection in God’s Will.

Nicole Whitacre wrote in “Your Mother-Daughter Relationship-Imperfect makes Perfect“,”The exact family we were placed in — the exact mother and the exact daughter we have received — were prearranged by God before the first day of creation. And if you are adopted or have a stepmother, God was equally sovereign in His choice for you. He specially selected the woman who is now your mother with precise detail and matchless love.”

Ps. 127:3 KJV-Lo, children [are] an heritage of the Lord: [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward.

God never made a mistake and He never will. To all things, God works for good.

Romans 8:28 KJV-And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.

This is a favorite verse of mine and I do quote it often because the reality is that through everything…God always pulls through and He does pull through for His love for us and to His glory.

So no matter where you are, what you do, married, single, foster,widowd, adoptive, step-parent, stay at home, work at home, or work out of home mother, God Bless You for the wonderful job you are doing.

We may not get front page headlines like most celebrity moms get to have; We may never get the notice we feel we should get, but God does notice you and He loves you for the work you are doing. He doesn’t expect you to be perfect because He loves you for who you are,as you are.

We have hard days, we have easy days. We all have good days and we all have bad days, but no matter what, with God, we are never alone and He blesses us for doing the best that we can do and helps lift us up on the days when we feel we can’t do our best.

To all you wonderful mothers, God Bless You and Happy Mother’s Day.