Happy Mother's Day!!!

Tomorrow is the BIG day...the day that your little angels deliver breakfast in bed, your husband goes out and buys the beautiful jewelry and the PERFECT card telling you that you are the most wonderful mom on the planet! It's the day that you get to sit back, put up your feet, and let the world around you do what you normally do every single day for that same world around you...or maybe it isn't...

I had the privilege of attending a ladies function today at my cousin's church. It was a wonderful experience. They had a big breakfast for us, worship, and a speaker. And I got to attend with my 2 cousins, my Aunt, my sister-in-law, and of course my mom. The message today was "The Battle Belongs to the Lord"...oh honey!!! SO SO needed!! I could rehash my notes for you, but we all know the story of David and Goliath! And it is not where my thoughts are tonight. Some of the things she mentioned though have stirred my mind and my heart...

God has called me to a ministry with women. It is my heart and my passion. I love to encourage and point them to Jesus! I want to be a messenger of hope in a woman's dark time. 

My thoughts tonight are with those women who are lacking...
Maybe you have a wayward child and you just want them to run back to the Lord and to your arms...
Maybe you are a Hannah and you are pleading for a child of your own...
Maybe you are in a marriage in which your husband does not realize the gift he has been given and you anticipate an empty day tomorrow...
Maybe your mom is no longer here and there is an empty spot in your life with no one to buy the card and gift for and in order to spend time with your mom, you have to make a trip to the cemetery...
Maybe your mom has never been a good mom and your heart aches for what should have been...
Maybe you have buried your child and this day brings such an ache, an ache that only our Savior can carry with you...
Maybe you are a single mom and there is no one to make sure your kids say, "I love you, Happy Mother's Day!"...
Maybe ____________ you fill in your blank...

I want you to know, that I have thought of you and my heart aches for you. But more than that, there is a loving Father that has open arms to hold you and love on you like no one else in this life can. And he DESIRES to do just that for you. He wants us to experience HIS redemption for our pains. He wants to give us the beauty for our ashes! He sees us ladies, as his Princesses, his brides. He sees EVERY single act we as mom's perform for our families, day in and day out and day in and day out... Single mom, he sees the burden that you carry as mom and "dad" and the extra load you have to do it all...literally! 

So, no matter what you are facing, GOD SEES YOU! He has not let go of you! Let your heavenly bridegroom, your loving Abba Father, hold you and comfort you! You are not forgotten and YOU ARE LOVED! 

Praying you have a Blessed and Happy Mother's Day!