Faithful Motherhood

When Robert Ingersoll, the notorious skeptic, was in his heyday, two college students went to hear him lecture. As they walked down the street after the lecture, one said to the other, “Well, I guess he knocked the props out from under Christianity, didn’t he?” The other said, “No, I don’t think he did. Ingersoll did not explain my mother’s life, and until he can explain my mother’s life I will stand by my mother’s God.”

James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited, Tyndale, 1972, p. 381.

The influence of a mother faithful cannot be understated.

Mom’s, grandmoms, you have the ability to influence the world for God in ways no one else can. Mother’s (and fathers), you have the chance to have a concentrated, focused opportunity to teach, train, and steer your children towards Christ.

You have the chance to give them a legacy of faithfulness.

BODY

Hannah was a mother faithful the the call of motherhood. in her example, she leaves us an example for mothers to follow.

Mothers, be faithful…

To the role of Motherhood – 1 Samuel 1: 1-20

1 Samuel 1:1-11

1 Samuel 1:1–11 ESV

1 There was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephrathite. 2 He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. 3 Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the Lord. 4 On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters. 5 But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb. 6 And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb. 7 So it went on year by year. As often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat. 8 And Elkanah, her husband, said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?” 9 After they had eaten and drunk in Shiloh, Hannah rose. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of the temple of the Lord. 10 She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly. 11 And she vowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.”

Some context.

Set during time of prophets and judges

No king yet, no temple. Tabernacle is still in use. Situated at Shiloh.

Hannah, though childless at the moment, will become the mother of Samuel.

Genealogy and geographical setting reveal Samuel’s heritage one of propitious circumstances.

Samuel (and his family) come from tribe of Levi. A study of 1 Chronicles 6:16-27; 33-36 shows us his lineage.

His family is in the line of priests and temple caretakers.

In Numbers 3, we learn that Elkanah – Son of Levi, Son of Kohath, is tasked with care of the ark of the covenant and other sanctuary items.

Ramathaim-zophim means the two heights of the Zophites or of the watchers (only in 1 Sam. 1:1), “in the land of Zuph” (9:5).it is another name for Ramah (4).

One of the Levitical families descended from Kohath, that of Zuph or Zophai (1 Chr. 6:26, 35), had a district assigned to them in Ephraim, which from this circumstance was called “the land of Zuph,” and hence the name of the town, “Zophim.”

This town would be the birth-place of Samuel and the seat of his authority (1 Sam. 2:11; 7:17).

It is frequently mentioned in the history of that prophet and of David (15:34; 16:13; 19:18–23).

Here Samuel died and was buried (25:1).

So, Elkanah was a Levite living in a city in the territory of Ephraim and he was entasked with the care of the tabernacle.

Ephraim, the country in which he lived, was so names after the second son of Joseph (one of 12 tribes)

The situation

Hannah may have been the first of the two wives (being mentioned first).

Unfortunately, she was barren. Her barrenness was probably the cause of second marriage.

Heirs were needed and it was no uncommon in the day, in the case of barrenness, to have a second wife or a concubine in order to produce an heir by.

Peninah, we speculate, may have come about because of it.

We are told that Elkanah loved Hannah and gave her double portions.

It would seem Hannah was the favorite wife and Peninah knew it too, thus the taunting and teasing that SHE has babies and Hannah did not.

Important role of wife was to bear children. Shame and reproach if she could not.

Thus we have this tensions between the two.

As for Elkanah, he would go up every year to offer sacrifices. It shows his piety and uprightness. Was careful to obey and remember, offering worship and sacrifice regularly.

3 feasts were commanded, (unleavened bread or Passover, weeks or Harvest, and booths or tabernacle, ingathering) – Ex 23:14; Deut 16:16); Passover or unleavened bread COULD NOT be celebrated in their own home towns but only where God said – at this time, it would seem to be in Shiloh.

This annual trek may have been one of these or even a personal, unscheduled trip.

To worship and sacrifice – in obedience and love for God

LORD of Hosts - Yahweh (Lord is all caps), Jehovah, Covenant name for God.

They went to Shiloh

Shiloh was a city in the territory of Ephraim.

It lays 12 miles South of Shechem

It was the spot where after leaving Gilgal, the ark and the tent of meeting was stationed and where, according to tradition, Joshua divided the land by lots between the 12 tribes.

It was the principle sanctuary throughout the time of Judges.

Hophni and Phineahs were priests – Sons of Eli (These were ungodly men – 1 Samuel 2:12-17)

On the day Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninah and double portions to Hannah. This double portion was food from the sacrifice…

Deut 12:17-18

Deuteronomy 12:17–18 ESV

17 You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vow offerings that you vow, or your freewill offerings or the contribution that you present, 18 but you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place that the Lord your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your towns. And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you undertake.

Hannah got double. Because of his love for her and his compassion for her barrenness, and likely his favoritism of her as the preferred wife, he gave her a double portion.

Peninah provoked, regularly, especially around feast time. Grieved Hannah. Wept and would not eat.

Elkanah, grieved with her, Am I not more to you than ten sons?

Let me ask you a question…would that question work for any of you women? Would that sooth and comfort you? No. I doubt it. Didn’t work for her either.

Heart of a husband who loves his wife, trying to console

Did not work for her…her grief strong over barrenness

Hannah was grieved over her barrenness and this grief was provoked by Peninah’s unkindness. It added insult to injury and weight to the burden that Hannah should not have had to bear.

And this particular year was no different. And her grief just as heaven.

SO, after their sacrifice and dinner…She rose to go pray….Eli was there….

Deeply Distressed….mar – Bitterness (Naomi – Mara, Bitterness) and nephesh – Soul, person, mind, heart, etc. – She was BITTER to the core of her soul.

Take a minute to try and understand the depth of this word.

This is a kind of grief that feels failed, abandoned, forgotten by God.

She may not have wavered in her faith, and I would contend that she did NOT, but this was a woman who, despite her enduring faith, was even more grieved because of it.

SHE BELIEVED in God. She trusted Him. She clung to Him, and she felt let down by Him.

She did not understand his plan or purpose for her life or her barrennes and she was LAMENTING and pouring her grief out.

So, she prayed…

Wept bitterly – Sob, mourn, wail

Made vow – Solemn promise

The vow she would make would be a Nazarite Vow

Numbers 6

Numbers 6:1–8 ESV

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord, 3 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried. 4 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins. 5 “All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long. 6 “All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body. 7 Not even for his father or for his mother, for brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean, because his separation to God is on his head. 8 All the days of his separation he is holy to the Lord.

Nazarite vow was one of complete dedication and service to God for life, for specific ministry task! This was the nature of her vow, of her promise if God would grant her the joy of childbirth!

Such was her longing that she was willing to give the child right back to God, if He would but grant her the privilege and joy

Application

Do you count the joy of child rearing that significantly? Is the role of motherhood that high of a priority in your life?

For those unable to bear….A Sovereign God is in control of that and knows. Your value and worth in His eyes is not based upon the children you bear but on the righteousness imparted to you through Christ and His shed blood for you.

Do you acknowledge all children are from God?

Are you willing to release the child back to God?

Illustration: Lynelle Buchanan, a former professor, pastor’s wife, and friend of ours struggled for a number of years to have children. She would often even stay home on Mother’s Day rather than gather with the church because it was so hard.

I remember her sharing and praying, and grieving, and crying out to the Lord for Him to intercede and give her children. I remember she promised to raise them up to love and serve him.

God would eventually answer that prayer. With not one, not two, but three children.

She served as an example for my wife and I of a woman who was devoted to loving God and who was willing to surrender “her” children back to God if He would but give her the joy of bearing and raising them for Him.

Hannah was a godly woman who viewed her responsibility to bear children as a joy and felt reproached if she was not able to do so.

She was willing to surrender her child back to God, acknowledging he was already His, if she would but be allowed to bear a child.

She was faithful to the role of motherhood. The role that motherhood is supposed to play…the role of raising up our children and sending them back to God to love and serve all the days of their lives.

Hannah knew WHOSE any child she bore actually belonged to. She knew WHOSE the child was and she knew what her responsibility was. She knew she has to hand him back to God anyway, she just devoted him from the beginning back to instead of later when he was older.

Hannah, humbly cried out to God, as a servant, willing to give up the very child she desired if it meant she could be a mother.

God answers…

1 Samuel 1:12-20

1 Samuel 1:12–20 ESV

12 As she continued praying before the Lord, Eli observed her mouth. 13 Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved, and her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman. 14 And Eli said to her, “How long will you go on being drunk? Put your wine away from you.” 15 But Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the Lord. 16 Do not regard your servant as a worthless woman, for all along I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation.” 17 Then Eli answered, “Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have made to him.” 18 And she said, “Let your servant find favor in your eyes.” Then the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad. 19 They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her. 20 And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked for him from the Lord.”

Hannah’s encounter with Eli reveals the depth of wickedness in the land.

He immediately concludes evil, concludes she is drunk.

For him to jump to that conclusion so quickly and rashly, is to show that this would have been the norm, common place. He was conditioned to seeing this and just assumed it was more of the same.

Hannah explains though,I am not drunk but troubled in Spirit

This idea of being troubled means hard, harsh, difficult, fierce, stubborn, stiff (necked), obstinate, rough, grievous

Idea is DEEP grief

She says, do not count me as a worthless woman – Wicked one, vile one, evil one, worthless one

Rather she spoke out of great anxiety – complaint, meditate, musing, considering, trouble.

ESV – anxiety

NIV – Anguish

NKJV – Complaint

NASB - Concern

Truthfully I like Anguish or complaint better. It was not so much anxiety as it was anguish that drove her.

Vexation – sorrow, grief, anxiety, anger, displeasure, annoyance

She is anguished, sorrowful, anger, displeased at her inability to fulfill the role of motherhood.

This anguish is magnified by the taunting of Peniniah and the sorrow that her barrenness certainly has had on Elkanah.

But there is probably more…

Why is this role of motherhood so important?

Joy of holding baby?

Joy of having children?

Joy of not being reproached by the world?

Find greater favor in eyes of husband or others?

PROBABLY yes, these had something to do with it, especially given the culture

BUT, there seems to me there is another reason.

I don’t want to overgeneralize or make a blanket statement, but there does seem to be an innate longing in most women to bear and raise children. A desire I can only conclude comes from God as a good and holy thing.

A desire that is in fulfilling one of the key purposes for which God created man and woman…BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY

Even women who may not strongly (or at all) desire children at first or who may not feel motherly at first, when a child comes, finds that it often changes.

It is quite possible, and highly likely, that one of the reason why women desire children is because it is in their very design and creation purpose.

Having shared her piece, Hannah waits and Eli responds with…

Go in peace – shalom – peace, prosperity, success, welfare, state of health, friendliness, deliverance, salvation

Shalom - one of the most important OT words. Used 236 times. Used in specific greetings between people to wish peace, security, safety to people and their households. Used even stronger at times to denote personal well-fare, prosperity, and bodily health. Used to refer to positive relationships between man or nations; Used to denote peace between man and God

Eli tells her, May God of Israel Grant your Petition – May the God of Israel grant you…not guaranteeing or promising, but telling her to go in peace and trust the Lord’s will.

Hannah responds with, Let your servant find favor in your eyes…still appealing to him to not see her as drunken; expressing appreciate for his charge of peace and reminder to trust God.

Went her way, ate, and…no longer sad….Went away encouraged, trusting God.

Application: Do you trust God, no matter the outcome, and find peace in God even before or without the answer you desire? Hannah found confidence in God, no matter the outcome. Trusted her whom to Him.

Peace found her BEFORE she found out God answered her petition. She lamented and grieved and found peace in GOD without an affirmative answer.

THIS is what lament is intended to do. Bring us to a place of trust. A place Hanna found.

Returned home…Elkanah “knew” her and the LORD REMEMBERED Her.

Remembered – Remember, commemorate, consider;

Emphasizes His faithfulness, especially in light of the earnestness of need and prayer (Ex 2:23-25 God does the same when He delivers Israel from Egypt.)

Application: Trust this: God remembers…God never fails to hear or respond to His people, to Keep His promises. Only unbelief and sin block God’s interaction. Even then, He is active and working to draw, rebuke, discipline, and claim or reclaim us.

And in due time, Hannah conceived and bore a son….God answers positively

Samuel – his name is God (El); Heard of God (Hannah says, I have asked for him from the Lord)

Application: Not a promise God always answers according to how we pray, but a promise God hears and cares about our concerns.

Be faithful…

…to the Role of Motherhood – 1:1-20

Secondly, be faithful

To the sacrifice of Motherhood – 1 Samuel 1:21-28

1 Samuel 1:21–28 ESV

21 The man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice and to pay his vow. 22 But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear in the presence of the Lord and dwell there forever.” 23 Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems best to you; wait until you have weaned him; only, may the Lord establish his word.” So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him. 24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and she brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh. And the child was young. 25 Then they slaughtered the bull, and they brought the child to Eli. 26 And she said, “Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the Lord. 27 For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him. 28 Therefore I have lent him to the Lord. As long as he lives, he is lent to the Lord.” And he worshiped the Lord there.

A year later, it is the annual sacrifice and offering time…

Hannah did not go…

Samuel was not yet weaned. Likely only a few months old, at most yet.

Though she did not go, she committed, as soon as child is weaned, I will take him up…Elkanah permitted but held her to her word.

Hannah not attempting to go back, waiting till child is of age and able to be independent of her, meanwhile enjoying her time with him. Elkanah grants and permits it, so long as she honors her vow to God.

When Samuel was old enough, when he was weaned (which happened typically anywhere from 18months to 5 years of age), she took him up and fulfilled her vow.

Hannah faithful to the sacrifice of Motherhood.

Application: What devotion and faith! How easy to not fulfill or seek to change vow once God has given us what we want! Takes love for God and faith in Him to do this.

Application: Is motherhood costly? Does it require sacrifice? Are you willing to sacrifice for motherhood? Are you fulfilling your role of motherhood by sacrificing for your children, for the ones God granted to you?

Illustration: My wife is a beautiful example of this. She sacrifices her time, energy, sleep, rest, comfort, food, pleasure/entertainment, etc for the kids.

It takes time, energy, and effort to plan for their education

To make doctors appointments

To help get the kids into camps and sports and get them to each of those events

To do hair

Manage clothing and personal care

To give advice and counsel

To cook, clean, and tend after kids

To nurse when sick

And Kelly does all this, and more, OFTEN when she has a splintering migraine.

And I KNOW you other moms get it.

YOU KNOW

ALL to one day, let your children go into adulthood, to give their hearts to someone else whom they join their lives with.

Hannah was faithful to the sacrifice of motherhood. At whatever age Samuel was weaned, she gave him back, as she promised she would.

Hannah fulfilled vow – When she had…she took him up…(with sacrifice and offering)

Reminds Eli of her prayer and reveals Samuel was the fulfillment of her prayer…

As long as he lives, he is lent…to the Lord.

ESV - lent

NASB – is dedicated

NIV – he will be given over

Unlike our word lent which seems to indicate that whatever is LENT is meant to be taken back at some point, this word means DEDICATED…GIVEN OVER. He IS God’s, with no expectation of being taken back.

And he worshipped there…Samuel that is

Hannah kept her vow to God despite how hard that had to have been. Recognized children come from God and she returned him back. Isn’t that what a mother does? She receives a child from the Lord and trains them to return to the Lord as an adult.

Hannah’s love for God was the fuel behind her love for her child. Nothing else would have made this kind of sacrifice possible.

Application: What is the fuel behind your love for your children? Does your love for God outweigh and fuel your love for your children? Others? If not, you will never be able to let your children go back to God.

Be faithful

…to the Role of Motherhood – 1:1-20

…to the sacrifice of Motherhood – 1:21-28

Let’s consider as well the call to be faithful

To the praise of Motherhood – 1 Samuel 2:1-11

1 Samuel 2:1–11 ESV

1 And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my horn is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. 2 “There is none holy like the Lord: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God. 3 Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. 4 The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble bind on strength. 5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn. 6 The Lord kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up. 7 The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he exalts. 8 He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and on them he has set the world. 9 “He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness, for not by might shall a man prevail. 10 The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed.” 11 Then Elkanah went home to Ramah. And the boy was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli the priest.

Do you hear the saturation of praise given to God? Give credit to God as the source of all things.

BOTH big and little…

This year we have been challenged…a faith in action is a faith that SEES that LOOKS for God in both the big and little.

Mom’s do you see the hand of God in your parenting? In your children? Do you help them see it?

Do you get specific with the praises of what you see God doing in the hearts and lives of your children? Do you get specific WITH God and WITH THEM?

Does your mouth drip with praises to God and to His abundant glory?

Does it drip MORE with praise than with critique?

I can tell you, this is hard. It is so much easier to note the negative than it is the positive. It is so much easier to let the positive pass and harp on the negative.

Take it from me. I struggle with this and have been challenged that I must do better myself. Not that I feel like I am making much progress in this yet, but it is something that God keeps before me.

What positives can you praise TODAY? What work of God in your children’s lives can you praise God for and point out to them today for?

Does your role as mother press you back into God time and time again? BOTH IN SUPPLICATION and in praise?

Does the joy of your role and the responsibility of your role keep you close to God?

In the midst of all the frustrating, discouraging, and painful moments that come with parenting...is there praise? Do you take time to thank God repeatedly for the praiseworthy moments that make much of him?

Samuel was an answer to prayer…resulting in praise and glory to God on high.

Application: Mothers, does your role as Mother prompt frequent praise of your God?

Praise at: Birth, health, safety, first word, first step, first lost tooth, etc (and every subsequent one).

Praise at their childlike prayers, their qwirky statements

Praise at growth in knowledge, learn how to read, do math, as they grow in wisdom and discernment to make wise choices, faith, salvation, etc.

Praise at those moments of sweetness and kindness?

Of spiritual sensitivity?

Of humility?

Of selfless service?

Of thoughtful compassion?

Of repentance?

Of obedience?

Is your mouth and your God Sighting journal overflowing with praise to God for WHO He is and WHAT He is doing in their lives, of how He is using you to accomplish it?

Mother’s, let your role as Mother, produce in you a depth of praise in your God. Take time, regularly to give thanks and to praise even despite the ongoing pain and hardship that comes with parenting.

Be Faithful…

…to the Role of Motherhood – 1:1-20

…to the sacrifice of Motherhood – 1:21-28

…to the praise of Motherhood – 2:1-11

Finally…one more…

To the Provision of Motherhood – 1 Samuel 2:18-21

1 Samuel 2:18–21 ESV

18 Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy clothed with a linen ephod. 19 And his mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. 20 Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, “May the Lord give you children by this woman for the petition she asked of the Lord.” So then they would return to their home. 21 Indeed the Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew in the presence of the Lord.

Her role continued…providing clothes as he grew.

Despite having given him over the Lord to full time ministry within the House of the Lord, she continued to love, support, serve, and sacrifice for her son. She continued to provide.

Mom’s, even if your children are grown and out of the house, even if they have families of their own, your job is not done. Your prayer, counsel, support, and care WILL continue to be a blessing, an encouragement, a ministry to your children. Your role may have changed from authority figure to respected counselor, but your role continues…even long after your promotion to glory.

The influence you exert will have profound and lasting affects, even if you do not see it.

So, be faithful.

Be faithful the provision of motherhood.

The role may change, but your continued influence should not. Even if it is ONLY in prayer

I say ONLY in prayer but in truth, PRAYER is the MOST powerful thing you can actually do.

Intercession before the throne of God is truly THE most powerful thing for you are carrying the needs and interests of your children (and grandchildren) before the throne of Him who IS able to affect change.

Application: Mother’s, your role is never done. Motherhood is a lifelong commitment and privilege. Do you count it so and cherish the responsibility to fulfill the role God so uniquely designed for you?

Mom’s how can you influence and invest in your children today? How can you show your ongoing devotion and commitment to them?

Hannah continued to invest. She examples for us what your role ought to be as well.

Hannah blessed with 3 more sons and 2 daughters for her willingness to trust God to faithfully enable her fulfill the role of motherhood.

Conclusion

BIG IDEA: Motherhood is a sacred role to which women are called to be faithful.

Hannah is an example of a Mother found Faithful in four key areas; the role of motherhood, sacrifice of motherhood, praise of motherhood, and provision of Motherhood.

So moms…the challenge and encouragement to us is this…

Be Faithful

…to the Role of Motherhood – 1:1-20

…to the sacrifice of Motherhood – 1:21-28

…to the praise of Motherhood – 2:1-11

…to the Provision of Motherhood – 2:18-21

Will you, moms, be found faithful in each of these four areas?

Application

In what way(s) have you been influenced by your mother’s to know truth, live truth, to know God, love God more deeply?

In what way(s) can we encourage our mother’s in the task they have been entrusted with?

How can you cultivate a deeper attitude of praise for God in your daily interactions with your children or within your family?

How does recognizing the value of motherhood as a sacred calling change your perspective on the challenges faced by mothers today?

In what ways can you show appreciation for the sacrifices that your mother or mother figures have made for you?

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