Today is the day when we celebrate the amazing moms in our lives.
Thank you to all the moms out there who give of themselves everyday for their children. These women give up their own dreams of their careers and their own plans to pour their lives into the little ones that have been entrusted to them. Thank you for being an example to me and girls like me who can watch how you love and teach your children to love and worship God. Thank you for letting me be a part of your kids lives. For entrusting me with their precious lives and letting me invest in their lives. Your families are a constant blessing to me.
Thank you to my mom. You are amazing! The best mom I could ever ask for. Your love and support means the world to me. I wouldn't be who I am today without your guidance.
But while we are celebrating the women who bless our lives daily, I can't help but think of the children all around the world tonight who don't have the love and care given by a mother. There are millions of children around the world tonight who have never known what it means to be loved and cared for by the woman who gave them life. They are alone in this world without the one person who is supposed to protect them.
Remember these children tonight. Those who have watched their mother's life slowly be taken from her by disease. Those children who are now taking on the role of mother for their younger siblings because someone has to feed them. The children who watched their mother leave, some hoping to find a way to care for them and some just leaving.
I ask as you thank God for your mother, that you will pray for God's protection over these children tonight. Pray that God will be the comfort that they now lack and provide all their needs.
I think of the 25 Indian children who will one day live in my home. In my mind, they are always girls. I think about where they are right now. If they are alive yet, if they are orphaned yet. It breaks my heart to think of them already in danger and in pain and I have no way to do anything for them except pray. And so I do. I beg God to protect them, to care for them until He allows me to love them and hold them myself.
While you are celebrating and loving your mom extra today, take a second and say a prayer for the children who have lost their moms. They need to know that they are not all alone in this world. The God of the universe loves and cares for them more than any earthly mother could possibly imagine.
I want to add something else to. Another group of people, of women, to remember and pray for everyday but today in particular- women who's babies (young and grown up) are no longer here with them but are dancing with Jesus right now.
I can't even begin to imagine the pain that these women must be feeling today.
I know that there are a lot of women who today can be painful for, but can we all just take a second and pray for these moms in particular.
The women who know in their hearts that they are mothers, but have no earthly reminder, no child to love and care for everyday. No one to track mud in on the carpet or color on the walls, just a aching heart, a reminder of what they have lost.
In this past year, our church family has experienced this pain several times. In the past few months, two women I know well lost their babies in miscarriages. Last summer, one of our pastors' wife delivered their baby several months early. He lived for a day and then went to be with Jesus. During that same time, my roommates older brother was killed in a terrorist attack in Uganda. My heart breaks for these women that I know and love, and I know that they are not alone in this pain. There are countless other women at the church who have experienced this loss and are reminded of it on this day.
Please take a minute with me and pray for these mothers. Pray for comfort and peace for their hearts and souls. Pray for a renewed hope in their hearts that they will see their children again. They will worship at the feet of their savior with the babies that they never got a chance to know or the child that they lost way too soon.
Pray for them.
Thank you to all the moms out there who give of themselves everyday for their children. These women give up their own dreams of their careers and their own plans to pour their lives into the little ones that have been entrusted to them. Thank you for being an example to me and girls like me who can watch how you love and teach your children to love and worship God. Thank you for letting me be a part of your kids lives. For entrusting me with their precious lives and letting me invest in their lives. Your families are a constant blessing to me.
Thank you to my mom. You are amazing! The best mom I could ever ask for. Your love and support means the world to me. I wouldn't be who I am today without your guidance.
But while we are celebrating the women who bless our lives daily, I can't help but think of the children all around the world tonight who don't have the love and care given by a mother. There are millions of children around the world tonight who have never known what it means to be loved and cared for by the woman who gave them life. They are alone in this world without the one person who is supposed to protect them.
Remember these children tonight. Those who have watched their mother's life slowly be taken from her by disease. Those children who are now taking on the role of mother for their younger siblings because someone has to feed them. The children who watched their mother leave, some hoping to find a way to care for them and some just leaving.
I ask as you thank God for your mother, that you will pray for God's protection over these children tonight. Pray that God will be the comfort that they now lack and provide all their needs.
I think of the 25 Indian children who will one day live in my home. In my mind, they are always girls. I think about where they are right now. If they are alive yet, if they are orphaned yet. It breaks my heart to think of them already in danger and in pain and I have no way to do anything for them except pray. And so I do. I beg God to protect them, to care for them until He allows me to love them and hold them myself.
While you are celebrating and loving your mom extra today, take a second and say a prayer for the children who have lost their moms. They need to know that they are not all alone in this world. The God of the universe loves and cares for them more than any earthly mother could possibly imagine.
I want to add something else to. Another group of people, of women, to remember and pray for everyday but today in particular- women who's babies (young and grown up) are no longer here with them but are dancing with Jesus right now.
I can't even begin to imagine the pain that these women must be feeling today.
I know that there are a lot of women who today can be painful for, but can we all just take a second and pray for these moms in particular.
The women who know in their hearts that they are mothers, but have no earthly reminder, no child to love and care for everyday. No one to track mud in on the carpet or color on the walls, just a aching heart, a reminder of what they have lost.
In this past year, our church family has experienced this pain several times. In the past few months, two women I know well lost their babies in miscarriages. Last summer, one of our pastors' wife delivered their baby several months early. He lived for a day and then went to be with Jesus. During that same time, my roommates older brother was killed in a terrorist attack in Uganda. My heart breaks for these women that I know and love, and I know that they are not alone in this pain. There are countless other women at the church who have experienced this loss and are reminded of it on this day.
Please take a minute with me and pray for these mothers. Pray for comfort and peace for their hearts and souls. Pray for a renewed hope in their hearts that they will see their children again. They will worship at the feet of their savior with the babies that they never got a chance to know or the child that they lost way too soon.
Pray for them.
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