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“Lessons from My Mother” with Rev. Jane Bennett Smith
As we honor Mother’s Day, we lean into imperfection and the many forms of love. Our lives are a tapestry of mothers of various roles and titles working to tend to us. Today we honor the lessons these mothers instilled in us, and the lessons I learned from mother figures that led to resiliency and wonder in unexpected ways. How does motherhood, in all its forms, cultivate beauty?
As we join to honor Mother’s Day this Sunday, I invite you to bring a flower with you to service. A colored flower if your mother is alive, and a white one if she has passed away. Together, our individual flowers join to create a unique bouquet. Each flower, just as each mother, brings with it its own beauty and its own imperfections. Perhaps your mom is dedicated like a dandelion, unassuming like violet, or beautiful yet not without thorns, like a rose. Together we will create a bouquet of collective beauty that allows us to honor, celebrate, heal, and mourn.
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