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Post by lindajoan on May 11, 2018 18:15:27 GMT
My prayer is that we would all remember what good Mothers we are and have always been. Estrangement is difficult. Many of our estranged children have rewritten history. I know our ED has made up many false stories. Please don't let that make you forget what a good Mother you are.
We have some wonderful ladies who have been with us for a long time and others who have recently joined. We welcome new members. Please do not hesitate to post. We are here to support one another. We do understand what you are going through. We also keep one another in prayer. We need one another.
God bless all of you with God's grace and peace.
Love, Linda
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Post by luke2231 on May 11, 2018 23:30:24 GMT
Thank you Linda for this! It’s so hard sometimes to remember that we were and are good mothers when everything feels the opposite, however, that’s just the enemy’s lie!
No matter what anyone’s plans are, I hope each of you remember that you are loved more than you can fathom, and He holds you in a special place in His heart. Be good to yourself; you deserve it. Do something that puts a smile on your face and dampens the hurt in your heart; the pain is temporary compared to eternity.
Each of you is special and I thank you for helping all of us feel connected and encouraged. God Bless you and have a BLESSED Mother’s Day!
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Post by JeepGirl on May 13, 2018 2:16:17 GMT
I am also sending Mother's Day wishes out to everyone. And I have the same sentiments as Linda and Luke.
I know several moms who are dreading tomorrow because of their situations. One woman told me that she she lost her son a couple of years ago from a freak accident. He was executed while he was working on a tree. Another woman just lost her mom and doesn't know how she will face tomorrow. And, of course, there is each one of us, who are estranged from our adult children.
I found this on the internet today and thought it truly applied to all women on Mother's Day. I have no information about the author, whether or not she is a Christian but, truthfully, it doesn't matter and I think after you read it, you will agree.
Written by Mirah Riben
Not all of us had storybook childhoods and not all of us have mothers who were able to meet our every need. Some of us have far less than perfect mothers, and some of us have mothers we do not know, are estranged from, or we never met; mothers who were not there to dry our tears and hold our hand as we took our first steps. Others of us have more than one mother or mother figure. Some have one mother who raised us and another who bore us or otherwise contributed to our birth.
My thoughts and prayers this Mother’s Day are for mothers for whom Mother’s Day is difficult or painful; those who dread the day because they do not fit the traditional culturally-accepted image of a mother.
My thoughts and prayers are with all mothers who have suffered loss and pain in the name of motherhood; mothers who have survived the death of a child - those who died during pregnancy, at birth or any time thereafter. Children known and unknown. Children whose mothers have memories to embrace and those with none. Mothers of soldiers lost at war and mothers of children who suffered illness and those taken suddenly by accident or murder or any other means. Mothers who lost children to causes that are negatively judged in society such as drug abuse or suicide.
Special prayers for those who lost the only child they ever had and special prayers for mothers of children who were kidnapped, trafficked, or abducted by family or strangers, and live with the horrible unknown.
My thoughts and prayers are with mothers who have experienced judgment and shame in regard to their identity as mothers...to all for whom the simple question, “How many kids do you have?,” wreaks havoc in their heart. I wish solace to mothers who longed for and never got to experience pregnancy and delivery of a child related to them.
Happy Mother’s Day to those who have mothered foster, adopted, or step-parented children but never “their own,” and those who have mothered both. Special Mother’s Day wishes to grandmothers and great mothers, aunts and sisters who raised others’ children as their own.
I wish peace for those who bore children they did not get to raise because others - foster or step or adoptive parents - stepped in with or without consent.I wish a day as free of pain as it can be for every mother who has had a child taken by Child Protective Services - temporarily or permanently — and those who lost children to adoption. May every separated child and mother be reunified with their kin.
My Mother’s Day wishes extend to surrogates who bore children for others and for women who sold their eggs because they believed it to be a noble gift or because they needed the money and now wonder about their genetic children’s well-being, or whose lives have been shaped trying not to think about them.
I wish a day as peaceful as is possible for women who are separated from their children by long distances, incarceration, or mental or physical illness or any number of other circumstances. And I wish contentment to mothers who abandoned their children in trash cans or “safe havens” as infants or left them when life became unbearable.
May all give and find forgiveness and the ability to not judge based on assumptions of what they have heard of their mothers from others. I hope that even those who were subjected to acts of abuse can find forgiveness while remaining safe.
May we all be kind to the homeless woman, the drug addict, the panhandler, the teen, the neighborhood drunk, because she may be somebody’s mother, even if she lives in a hole in a swamp or in a doorway or a car.
Every one of us has at least one woman who served a part in our being here and/or being raised to the best of their ability. May we open our hearts to ALL mothers - not just those who might be featured in a Hallmark special.
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Post by bettyshe on May 13, 2018 15:11:53 GMT
Happy Mother's day everyone. I feel so blessed to have this place to come to for refuge, comfort, peace and kinship. Thank you Jeep for the piece you shared. The writer is truly an insightful person. She covered all areas of motherhood.
Today/this week is very very hard for me. I need your prayers, and I thank God for each of you.
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Post by lindajoan on May 13, 2018 20:38:41 GMT
Thank you Jeep. This post was very true. We certainly can all relate to it.
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