Thoughts for Mothering Sunday

So, what happens now? One minute we were getting on with life, the universe and everything, and then all has changed. It is as if the world is inhabiting a different space and we cannot see the future.

We will not be gathering in church to celebrate Mothering Sunday, but that need not stop us thinking about mothers. Hilary speaks about her mother, a teenager at the outbreak of World War 2 her mother said ‘ On that day my life ended’. My own mother, a young woman giving birth in the middle of an air raid, spoke of her terror. She told me ‘ The doctors and nurses were attending to the wounded, the mothers in the Labour Ward were left to fend for themselves’ . They didn’t know what would happen to them or the world around them.

Many more years before that a young Jewish couple were getting on with life when the call of an angel and the birth of a child changed everything. The child brought joy, danger and challenge for the whole world.

When we look back at our mothers and at parents in earlier generations we can see how their lives changed radically as if they were suddenly inhabiting a different space. But we can also see how their lives worked out in the end.

On Sunday remember and give thanks for your own mother. Look again at Mary and Joseph, understand how a life lived in faith and love resulted in Resurrection and Hope.

So, what happens now? I don’t know. Please continue to continue in love and prayer, caring for parents, caring for children, in the hope that this new experience of cooperation and conversation between the Nations of the world will produce a good and peaceful outcome that will last!

Keep everyone safe!

Every Blessing!

Ros Parrett