Well Mothers Day last year which was also my cousin Ruaridh's baptism my Grandad who helped alot with the service wrote this prayer for Mothers Day. I think its really nice and wanted to share it - please include the mothers in my family and in your own.
Loving god, on this special day, this Mothers day, we thank you for the love of the mothers you have given us
whose love is so precious it can never be measured, whose patience seems to have no end. May we see your loving hand behind them guiding them.
We pray for new mothers, coming to terms with new responsibility and for expectant mothers, wondering and waiting;
We pray for mothers who embrace the joy of motherhood every day. May they continue to receive your grace to nurture their children with unconditional love.
We pray for mothers who are stuggling with the burden of motherhood. Those who are tired, stressed or depressed; and those who struggle to balance the tasks of work and family. Help them know that you are with them through the hardest times.
We pray for mothers who's children have grown up and left home. Who see their children maturing with different values and without seeming to practice the faith nutrured in them. Help then embrace the differences and fill them with your mercy and forgiveness so that they might enbrace their children with compassionate love.
We pray for mothers who feel lonley, whos homes no longer hold the sounds of children. Help them to see what you have in store for them now. Help them to see that you are doing something new in them. You are preparing them for a new phase, a new service and a new way of loving you.
We pray for mothers who are seperated from their children by war or conflict. Who's children are facing danger and death every day, and for those whos children have not and will not be coming home. Help them come to terms with there loss and grief.
God our creator, we also pray:
for those who are unable to feed their children due to poverty;
for those whose children have physical, mental or emotional disabilities;
for those who have children they do not want;
for those who raise children on their own;
for those who have lost a child;
for those who care for the children of others;
and for those whose desire to be a mother has not been fulfilled.
Bless all mothers, everywhere, that their love may be deep and tender, and that they may lead there children to know and do what is good, living not for themselves alone, but for god and for others. Amen
