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Potts Pages - Imperfect Mothers-Perfect Faith
May 05, 2016
June Cleaver, Carol Brady, Clair Huxtable and Olivia Walton are just a few of the mothers that we have watched on TV over the years and admired. What was so special about these ladies? Well, for one thing, they seem to have it all together. They were full of wisdom, and their kids thought they were wonderful.
May I remind you, that they are all fictional characters, and they weren’t as all together as they might have appeared. June left all the big decisions up to Ward. Carol had a maid. Clair had to have a weekend every now and then to get away from the kids. And, I seem to remember Olivia grabbing the Bible and reading a few verses to help her bite her tongue and control her anger.
The American Mother’s Day Celebration was begun by a woman named Anna Jarvis in 1908, who wanted to find a way to honor her mother. She campaigned to have the holiday added to the national calendar.
In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation declaring the second Sunday in May as the national holiday known as Mother’s Day. Then it seems everyone jumped on the bandwagon. Card companies, florist, and department stores started capitalizing on the holiday. The very companies that Jarvis had enlisted to help begin the celebration were now using it for their own gain. Twelve years after she started the holiday, she did everything in her power to denounce it and get it removed from the American calendar.
Mothers are not perfect, and neither is the holiday. Gifts and cards are nice, but mothers want nothing more than time with their children. If you are a mother you know this first hand.
I realize that this may be a difficult holiday for many people. Some of our mothers are no longer here. Celebrate them anyway by remembering a piece of wise advice they gave, a funny antidote or just their love for you.
Others of you may find Mother’s Day painful because you’ve lost a child or you long to be a mother and it hasn’t happened yet. I realize that each person has to come to this place in their own timing, but I hope that you can find a child in need to lavish motherly love upon.
There may be some of you that didn’t have a mother growing up or at least one that deserves to be celebrated. I pray that you can find gratitude in your heart for the fact that your mother gave you life. Then look around and celebrate relatives, teachers or friends who filled in that gap for you.
As mothers, we won’t ever be perfect, but we need to strive to be worthy of honor. The best way we can do that is to pass our faith on to our children. Let them see how our faith in a perfect God helps us deal with our imperfections. We can leave them no greater legacy.
“I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.” (2 Timothy 1:5) (NIV)
May I remind you, that they are all fictional characters, and they weren’t as all together as they might have appeared. June left all the big decisions up to Ward. Carol had a maid. Clair had to have a weekend every now and then to get away from the kids. And, I seem to remember Olivia grabbing the Bible and reading a few verses to help her bite her tongue and control her anger.
The American Mother’s Day Celebration was begun by a woman named Anna Jarvis in 1908, who wanted to find a way to honor her mother. She campaigned to have the holiday added to the national calendar.
In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation declaring the second Sunday in May as the national holiday known as Mother’s Day. Then it seems everyone jumped on the bandwagon. Card companies, florist, and department stores started capitalizing on the holiday. The very companies that Jarvis had enlisted to help begin the celebration were now using it for their own gain. Twelve years after she started the holiday, she did everything in her power to denounce it and get it removed from the American calendar.
Mothers are not perfect, and neither is the holiday. Gifts and cards are nice, but mothers want nothing more than time with their children. If you are a mother you know this first hand.
I realize that this may be a difficult holiday for many people. Some of our mothers are no longer here. Celebrate them anyway by remembering a piece of wise advice they gave, a funny antidote or just their love for you.
Others of you may find Mother’s Day painful because you’ve lost a child or you long to be a mother and it hasn’t happened yet. I realize that each person has to come to this place in their own timing, but I hope that you can find a child in need to lavish motherly love upon.
There may be some of you that didn’t have a mother growing up or at least one that deserves to be celebrated. I pray that you can find gratitude in your heart for the fact that your mother gave you life. Then look around and celebrate relatives, teachers or friends who filled in that gap for you.
As mothers, we won’t ever be perfect, but we need to strive to be worthy of honor. The best way we can do that is to pass our faith on to our children. Let them see how our faith in a perfect God helps us deal with our imperfections. We can leave them no greater legacy.
“I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.” (2 Timothy 1:5) (NIV)
Sue
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