The Painful Birth of New Life

On this Mother’s Day, we continue our sermon series on The Gift of Darkness. Mother’s Day is a complex day for mothers and their children. Some women yearn to be moms. Some moms have outlived their children. Some moms have strained relationships with their children, feel regret and shame, and have heavy hearts because their children have strayed. Some children have toxic moms, moms who are in their last days. Some children have strained relationships with their moms or have lost their moms and would give everything in the world for one more moment together. This day is full of celebration and mourning, praise and pause, joy and heaviness. A call to motherhood is a call to pain, but God uses that pain to birth joy and new life in you and others.