Friday May 2-  MOTHER

Faith – mother – LIGHT; seeing nurture as promise |

How God started the world we know without a mother and then established the starting blocks of the world to come with the agency of our Lady Mary is pure genius and profoundly instructive. When we are asked the question “Can a nursing mother forget her child?” we are tempted to say yes, but when we examine the record of Mary she stood with her child even when he hung on the cross content to die.  She who said at the wedding in Cana “Do what he tells you” must be counted as visionary and faithful to the end.

Hope – mother – LIGHT; trusting gestation |

Thankfully, the nine months of pregnancy contain significant change. Babes, from conception, are in change mode, right up to the gender affirming “It’s a #¢&”.  All the joy at this point gets nudged over by the sobering recollection that the experienced mother alone knows what birth pangs are, and gestation is a lot of time to prepare oneself for  motherhood’s birth event.  Talk about mother’s hope is highly underrated.

Love – mother – LIGHT; embracing care |

The joy of childbirth tends to turn into tender care and total attention to the tiny human, and while the quintessential maternal support seems like the findingthat has come under scrutiny, by no less than His Infinite and Supreme Majesty.

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. (Isaiah 49:15)

Death – mother – LIGHT; becoming portal to Immortal’s life |

What does a mother do when she learns that her child is destined to die without being sick or injured?  At first she wondered.  Then she pondered.

Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? (Luke 1:34)

But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart. (Luke 2:19)

One only has to see Mary at the cross to understand her involvement with God and her  contribution to eternal life.