05/10/2026
Mother's Day can be both a wonderful and emotionally complex day for many.
To honour this, we're sharing an adaptation of a prayer by Amy Young and Heidi Carrington Heath that speaks to the many challenging, yet beautiful, circumstances people, particularly women, can find themselves in this Mother’s Day.
We trust it brings some measure of hope, comfort, and even joy as we’re reminded of the many people in Scripture who experienced similar circumstances and found that God was with them every step of the way.
💐 A Mother’s Day Prayer 💐
“If you are like Mary, pregnant for the very first time and waiting breathlessly for the miracle of your first child, we want you to know that we are praying for you.
If motherhood is your greatest joy and your toughest struggle all rolled into one, we want you to know that we are praying for you.
If you are like Tamar, struggling with infertility or miscarriage, we want you to know that we are praying for you.
If you are like Rachel, counting the women among your family and friends who, year by year and month by month, get pregnant while you wait, we want you to know that we are praying for you.
If you are like Naomi and have known the bitter sting of a child’s death, we want you to know that we are praying for you.
If you are like Joseph and Benjamin and your mom has died, we want you to know that we are praying for you.
If your relationship with your mom was marked by trauma, abuse, or abandonment, or if she couldn’t parent you the way you needed, we want you to know that we are praying for you.
If you have been like Moses’ mother and placed a child up for adoption, trusting another family to love your child into adulthood, we want you to know that we are praying for you.
If you have been like Pharaoh’s daughter, called to love children who are not yours by birth—and to hold space for the mother who brought that child into your life, even if it is complicated—we want you to know that we are praying for you.
If you are, like many, watching (or have watched) your mother age and disappear into the long goodbye of dementia, we want you to know that we are praying for you.
If your children have turned away from you, painfully closing the door on relationship, we want you to know that we are praying for you.
If you are watching your child struggle through a situation you can only watch unfold, we want you to know that we are praying for you.
If you, like so many women before you, do not wish to be a mother, are not married, or in other ways do not fit into societal norms, we want you to know that we are praying for you.
If you see yourself reflected in all, some, or none, of these stories, we want you to know that we are praying for you.
This Mother’s Day, wherever and whoever you are, we walk with you.
You are loved. You are seen. You are worthy.
And may you know the deep, unending love of our big, wild, beautiful God, who is the very best example of a parent we know.
Amen.
Adapted from “A Mother’s Day Prayer” by Amy Young and Heidi Carrington Heath.
