Blessed are the Mothers

“As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out,  
‘Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you’”—Luke 11:27 (NIV).

All of us have at least one thing in common. We came into this world by way of a woman who gave birth to us. If we are blessed, our mother was there for us in times of trouble and joy. And, whether we wanted to learn them or not, she taught us many of life’s lessons.

·My mother taught me foresight.
“Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident.”

· My mother taught me logic.
“Because I said so, that’s why.”

·My mother taught me religion.
“You’d better pray that will come out of the carpet.”

I can recall my mother using some of these same tactics, which I also used on my own sons, along with many more. One lesson I taught my sons was about the circle of life: “I brought you into this world and I can take you out.”

I often joke about my youngest son, who is now 41 years old and didn’t get married until he was 35. I’ve told him God knew what He was doing by making sure he was the second-born son. If Clint had been my oldest, he’d been an only child. Of course, my son knows I’m only joking.

However, can you imagine how Mary felt when she learned she was chosen to carry our Savior?

In his book, Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise, John Killinger writes, “I believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, who was born of the promise to a virgin named Mary. I believe in the love Mary gave her Son, which caused her to follow Him in His ministry and stand by His cross when He died.

“I believe in the love of all mothers, and its importance in the lives of the children they bear. It is stronger than steel, softer than down, and more resilient than a green sapling on the hillside. It closes wounds, melts disappointments, and enables the weakest child to stand tall and straight in the fields of adversity.

“I believe that this love, even at its best, is only a shadow of the love of God, a dark reflection of all that we can expect of him, both in this life and the next. And I believe that one of the most beautiful sights in the world is a mother who lets this greater love flow through her to her child, blessing the world with the tenderness of her touch and the tears of her joy.”

Mary shed tears at her son’s crucifixion. But they weren’t tears of joy. She knew her son’s purpose. She had stored those things in her heart. However, even as Jesus was dying on the cross, He taught us a valuable lesson about mothers.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said it best, “Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought—the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven.”

Blessed are the mothers.

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