05/11/2025
Loving God, look gently upon mothers of newborn and young children. Give them energy, patience, gentleness and happiness in these fleeting days of sticky hands, messy houses and never-ending laundry.
Bless mothers who are raising school aged children and teenagers. Give them peace and joy while parenting in moments that seem both hard and wonderful at the same time .
Bless mothers who, from afar, watch and wonder about their adult children. Give them perspective and wisdom as their children make choices and live their own lives.
Bless mothers who, formally or informally, have adopted children who need mothering. Be with them as they raise the next generation.
Comfort all people who mourn the absence of their mother today from death or illness or because of broken and challenging relationships.
Comfort those who had hoped to be mothers but have been unable to do so, and those who continue to hope to become mothers. Comfort also, we pray, those mothers who mourn over the loss of their own children .
Gracious God, help us to recognize all the women who have guided us and loved us like mothers, shining forth as an example of the deepness of the love you offer us. In your Holy name we pray, Amen.
