Let’s see. It’s Mother’s Day, the once-a-year flower frenzy to make mothers feel good even as those of us who are mothers worry about the future for our children and grandchildren. I know as I think about my granddaughters who have their lives before them, I fear for a future beyond any input or control I might have.
Of course, many of us know that we have little, if any, control for today’s events for the world around us overwhelms us as so-called leaders just make a mess of it all. It’s worse than the pot on the stove boiling over creating a disaster in the kitchen. And you know who has to mop it up.
We shake our heads as we hear that some in Congress want to appropriate $1 billion for a hideous addition to the White House called a ballroom “for security.” Really? This while cutting programs that help poor mothers feed their children. Sometimes I wonder if they ever had mothers who struggled or if they were just hatched. Happy Mother’s Day.
Prayer for the Day
You, who summons the earth from the rising of the sun
And keeps us in your heart until the sun sets no more,
Impart to us your wisdom, immerse us in your justice
So we reflect your will and your mercy.
Engage us into conversation with the One
Who calls us to reflect your righteousness.
We ask this in the name of him who called us to justice,
Even Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
We must not, in trying to think how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make, which, over time, add up to big differences which we cannot foresee.
Marian Wright Edelman, Children’s Defense Fund
O Lord, you have searched me and known me.
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You discern my thoughts from far away
You search out my path and my lying down,
You are acquainted with all my ways.
Psalm 139: 1-3