Thu 5/9/2024 8:19 AM

One hundred and ten years ago today, on May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.  For those of you not paying attention, that means that this coming Sunday is Mother’s Day – don’t forget.

James Joyce said, “Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.”  De Balzac said “[t]he art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”  Steinbeck wrote, “Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.”  Charles Dickens said that “[p]ride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and hope.”  And J.D. Salinger famously declared that “[m]others are all slightly insane.” 

I think there’s at least a bit of truth in all of these.  My question for you this morning as we approach Mother’s Day is this: What is true about your own mother?  And will you take the time to tell her on Sunday?  I hope so (unless, of course, it is the bit about being slightly insane – maybe save that one for another time).

Have a wonderful day.