Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day!

Memories On Father's Day!

This year, I join the many people who will celebrate the first Father’s Day without their father. When my father passed away a month ago, just a few days shy of Mother’s Day, you don’t really think about their absence during the time your grief is brand new and fresh. Today, I am not certain if I feel sadness or a void that will never be filled, but I do sense an aloofness of thought at the moment. It’s a thought that I know is a reality and don’t dispel, but I think my thought process is reactivating memories of a time that once was.

Losing your parents almost takes you back to a mental position where you were, when you were just getting out in the world on your own. It sort of feels like you are learning to fly all over again. Yet, this time around, the flight is not foreign, but a continuation of a journey. It’s sort of like a layover when you are traveling by airplane.

Gone, but not forgotten takes on a completely different meaning. Yet, we begin new memories, although these cannot serve as a replacement memory of those past experiences. I implore all fathers, even those who lack the type of parenting skills that kids need nowadays, to step up to the plate and help our young people become valuable additions and contributors to society.  Mothers of course, are extremely important, especially where that nurturing spirit and support comes into play with her children. However, some fathers don’t realize what a vital role they play in the strength and bonding of his family. Fathers are supposed to compliment mothers and vice versa, even if a divorce is a part of the equation.

So on this beautiful Father’s Day, I want to wish all of the fathers, as well as mothers who had to step in for an absentee father, to enjoy and celebrate this day! For those fathers who are away from their children, perhaps due to military deployment, we pray for your safe and speedy return to your family.

Happy Father’s Day!

Happy Mother's Day!

Today we celebrate Mother's Day! What an incredible day to celebrate and honor women and mothers! The Ten Commandments reminds us to honor our mothers, but what are you doing to honor your mother, aside from Mother's Day? Regardless of whether your mother is living or passed away, we cannot forget to pay homage to what  the memory and importance of "mother" means to us!

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Father's Day!

To all of our fathers who step up to the plate and continue to be the father they are supposed to be for their children and their family, we wish you a Happy Father’s Day! A special acknowledgement to all of the women who did dual-parenting where a father was neither present or actively involved in helping to raise their children!

"A righteous man who walks in his integrity - How blessed are his sons after him."
 (Proverbs 20:7, NASB)

Happy Mother’s Day!

“The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.”
~ Henry Ward Beecher

To mothers past and present, we celebrate you today. We look to our mothers to care for us, protect us and be the nurse or doctor for our ailments and woundedness. Mother’s Day isn’t the only time we celebrate our mothers. We celebrate their maternal embrace, guidance and prayers at some moment and time every day.

If you were not fortunate enough to have a mother who was that nurturer and God-made creature that you hoped she would have been, then you have the will power to do things differently and be the mother creature that God purposed you to be. To all of our mothers, grandmothers, aunts, stepmothers, Godmothers, sisters, nieces and female friends, Happy Mother’s Day!

To the fathers who had to unexpectedly step in the position of being the maternal figure in the absence of a mother, for whatever reasons, we celebrate you on this day as well. Parenting is not an easy task, for there is not an owner's or instruction manual that comes with a child. When we look to the word of God for guidance and help however, we will find that He will provide the correct answers that we need to be the mothers and fathers that we are supposed to be.

Happy Mother's Day!