Daily Musings
Mother's Day - 05/09/2008
Apparently Mother's Day is celebrating its 100 anniversary this year, having had the foundation laid over a century ago under the tireless labors of Ann Jarvis, but not brought into reality until 1908 when her daughter Anna Jarvis succeeded in getting the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church of Crofton, West Virginia to acknowledge women on the second Sunday in May. Six years later, in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson declared the first Mother's Day to commemorate those mothers who had lost sons in a war. It has grown from there and, as is typical of any public event, quickly became quite commercialized, with Mother's Day now being the single, biggest "restaurant day" of the year, the industry's "Black Friday."
Historically, because of sin and its deleterious impact upon the human soul, women have often been marginalized, abused, mistreated, and violated. Men (too often husbands and fathers), given their self-centeredness, have often treated women in sinful, shameful ways. So a day to honor and remember our mothers is surely appropriate. We too soon forget the incredible sacrifices mothers have made for us so we do well to take time on this Mother's Day to honor them for their labors of love.
Especially so if you were blessed to have had a mother who not only cared for your physical needs but also attended to your soul. The Bible is replete with godly mothers who fed their children's souls, not merely their bodies. One could speak of Eve, Sarah, Rachel and Rebecca, Hannah, Naomi, Ruth, Bathsheba, Rehab, Elizabeth, Mary, Eunice, Lois, and so many more. The vast crowd of witnesses are known only to their children and to God, but that in itself is everything, for every mother who has given so selflessly on behalf of her offspring knows the sacrifice she has made for her children, and understands that sacrifice has also been noticed by God, and He will publicly honor them with an eternal Mother's Day before their children, as well as all creation, and that forever.
Larry Wanaselja
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