05/10/2026
Pastor Apryl shared about motherhood in today's message. Motherhood is an amazing job. The bible tells us that children are an inheritance from God and gives us examples of good and bad mothers. God tells us he is with us even at 2:00 AM.
Women in history: Margaret Knight invented the machine that cuts, fold, and glues paper bags. Ann Reeves Jarvis organized Mother's day work clubs and taught women about sanitation and hygiene and she helped both the confederate and union soldiers during the Civil War. Her daughter, Ann Jarvis, started to push for Mother's Day about 1904 as a way to honor her mother and all mothers for what they do. President Woodrow Wilson designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day and that the flag was to be flown in honor of mothers.
Proverbs 31:10-20 reminds us there are seasons in a mother's life and that women can go beyond what the norm is when caring for their households and families. Proverbs 22:6 tells us: "train a child up in the way they should go and they will not depart from it."
However, being a mother does not necessarily mean that you bore a child. There are many ways to be a mother to a child. Let Christ direct you as a kind word, a small gift, being involved in the child's life in some manner. We need to put God first spiritually and rest in Him. Our children are a gift from God but for a season to take care of them. Our job as mothers never ends.
President Abe Lincoln had this to say about his mother: "I remember my mother's prayers and they have clung to me all my life.
