Here is a responsive call to worship for Mother’s
Day. It was written by Rev. Paul Hayes, Pastor at Noank Baptist Church in
Noank, CT, and posted on the Baptist Peacemaker website.
Call to
Worship for Mother’s Day
We
celebrate today our mothers who bore us and cradled us as infants.
We also remember
mothers who have lost their children
through illness or
violence,
whose tears still flow
from their broken hearts.
We
cherish our families
who
have sheltered us from harm and who provided for our daily needs.
We remember families who
are separated
and those exiled from
the land of their birth
by frontiers, by barbed
wire, and by war’s violence.
We
express gratitude to our spiritual mothers and fathers
who
guided us throughout life, modeling for us the love of God.
We hold up mothers of
diverse religions and creeds
who experience life in
disparate ways—
those who are comforted
and encouraged by what they believe
and those who struggle
to find meaning and hope in their faith.
We
pray for those who we love and hold dear to our hearts—
children,
youth, young adults, and elders;
And we pray for those
we know and do not hold dear,
and those who we do not
know and whose suffering we have not embraced.
On
this Mother’s Day,
we
come to worship the living God, to honor our mothers,
and
to find our solace and peace in the goodness that life brings;
Acknowledging the joys
and sorrows of life,
we hope to depart this
place transformed by Christ’s Spirit
that we may express
compassion,
seek justice,
show mercy,
and pursue peace
wherever our lives may
lead.
~ written by Rev. Paul Hayes, Pastor, Noank Baptist Church, Noank, CT. Posted on the Baptist Peacemaker website. http://www.bpfna.org/
