Happy Mother’s Day! I think I have mentioned this on other Mother’s Day, but I learned the hard way that I should never try to preach about this special occasion. Many years ago I started a Mother’s Day sermon telling the congregation … with some sarcasm … that it was really a holiday invented by the greeting card companies, florists, and restaurants. My intent was to point out that mothers needed to be honored every day of the year … not just the second Sunday in May. Well, Dorothy Ebert … God rest her soul … was sitting in the first pew with a gorgeous corsage, a lap full of pastel colored envelopes, and her daughter and her family sitting next to her … no doubt they were taking her to a Mother’s Day Brunch following the service. Dorothy’s smile turned to a scowl and she never heard another word of my sermon. Oh well, lesson well learned. But happy Mother’s Day anyhow.
4 Easter
May 11, 2014
In the name of the God of all Creation,
The God alive in each of us as God was alive in Jesus,
And the power of God known in the Spirit.
Amen.
May 11, 2014
In the name of the God of all Creation,
The God alive in each of us as God was alive in Jesus,
And the power of God known in the Spirit.
Amen.
