Mothering
Care, guidance, nurture: these motherly qualities are desirable in all human beings.
There’s nothing soft, weak or soppy about them for each of those qualities
demand strength of character and the ability to self-reflect and make adequate decisions.
It is said that being able to think ahead is a sign of maturity:
it is an essential attribute in caring for a child. It is also needed for ministry,
which is, in many senses, a mothering role.
Think of getting up at night to attend the bedside of the dying or of dropping
everything for an emergency or a mediating a family grievance,
hearing confessions, life stories, complaints, and stories of abuse….
How often have I desired to gather your children together
as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
Luke 13:34
Let us give thanks for our Fathers and Mothers in God.
Let us commend them to God’s care and keeping.
Let us pray especially for Mothers Union as it mothers worldwide.