“Happy Mother’s Day!” I remember what I heard at the church I attended a while ago before I became a mother.
With my husband, we entered worship, and the greetings handed all the women and wanted a happy mother’s day. They didn’t know much, I was struggling with infertility, and it was a moment of complicated emotions. I strongly wanted to have a child, but I couldn’t.
After six years of infertility, even when I finally got pregnant, my mother still in my uterus with my son -I remember asking myself, I still have a mother Is it? Is this my first mother’s day? Or do I have to wait for my son to be born and be considered a mother?
Eventually, I decided that I was a mother that day, despite my son yet. That year, I was happy to say hello. Especially on a difficult trip to get there.
Mother’s Day complexity
A few years before my son pregnant, my mother died. So, for many years, Mother’s Day always reminded me that she was gone with us.
I couldn’t call her over the phone and lamented that she wanted a happy mother’s day. However, while evaluating her sacrifice for many years at the same time, I thought that our relationship was difficult. For me, Mother’s Day was a mixture bag of emotions that had been grateful and tears for a long time.
This holiday is often a fun time to celebrate the people who are in the role of mother and mother. But that’s not a happy day for everyone.
Some mothers may feel inadequate their motherhood. Others may have endured postpartum struggles. For others, this day may be reminiscent of something painful on this day, falling into infertility, illness, or parent’s loss. Difficulty can be rooted in broken and struggling relationships. In some cases, the mother may struggle with the loss of children and child -rearing, or lamented miscarriage.
Beyond what I mentioned on this day, there are many complicated emotions for so many reasons. So what can you do?
In addition to celebrating your mother in our lives, think about those who may have experienced something with pain on Mother’s Day. People who have experienced difficult emotions, whether they are encouraging, sending cards, or meeting them together, are informed that they are being seen and heard. If they want to speak and express their emotions, please be happy. Gifts of your existence are sometimes the best in difficult times. Praying, encouragement from words, and your thoughts can provide comfort to those who were hurt that day.
All comfort gods
One of the poems I speak to me is Corinth 1: 3-5. We may be able to comfort us what kind of suffering you are comforting by God. We share a wealth of comfort through Christ as we share a wealth of share of Christ’s suffering. “
Who can share comfort with this Mother’s Day? Leave your eyes and ears open and forgive God to tell your heart about what you can bless you.
And if you are hurt by Mother’s Day, even if no one else is looking at you, know that God will do so. He knows you and your pain closely, and he loves you. As I remembered in the poem SAL 147: 3, “He heals the broken and ties their wounds.”
On this Mother’s Day, let’s show people like Christ, no matter where you are in the complex emotions surrounding this holiday.
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Chinyere Enemchukwu is a different cultural trainer for Family Life staff. She is learning and enjoying how to convey good gospel news in various social and cultural contexts. Chinyere is married to her husband and best friend, Nduka Enemchukwu, and they are proud of their young son’s parents. They live in Orlando, Florida.
