Mother's Day & Tapestries
Greetings, This morning, in celebration of Mother's Day, several members of the congregation recorded short videos of things they learned from their mothers. As I listened to the legacies passed on from one generation to the next, I reflected on my own life. My mother died thirteen years ago and I miss her very much. My mother didn't have strong, mantras that reverberated through our lives. She was a strong Christian, but she lived it more than she spoke about it. I was invited to include a video about what I learned from my mother this Sunday, but the thing that came to my mind first and seemed to get stuck in the forefront of my mind was "Always read a recipe all the way through to the end before you start to cook." Despite being sound advice, it just didn't compare to the things so many others mentioned this morning. As I struggled with the thoughts running through my mind, I knew I learned much more from my mother than that. My mother prayed, quietly i
