Mother's Day

Women, it seems obvious to me, were created as extremely compassionate, selfless, and nurturing beings.  A friend of mine and I were discussing his first child and he talked about how amazing it was to watch his wife interact with their son.  He said that it was a side of her that he had never seen yet it was shockingly natural for her.  She had this sense of how to nurture and care for the human they created.  She knew instinctively what their son needed.  My friend viewed this as a gift from God to his wife and he was excited to find out more intimately the gifts he had been given to be the best father he could be for his son.

God is very intentional and does not act carelessly.  The system of the mother carrying the child in her womb was not a mistake.  God entrusted His most precise creation to the care of women during that creation’s most delicate days.  Women should be honored and men should be impressed and thankful.

Marriage and parenthood is the best impersonation of God’s love.  A loving relationship produces life.  Love that exists manifests Itself into a new person.  From love comes life.  This is true for parents and this is true for God.  Parents create children out of love and God created everything that exist out of love for those who would enjoy it. Parents also reflect the love of God by pouring their lives out for their children, which is exactly what God, in the Divine Person of Jesus, did in His passion, death, and resurrection.  God is the model for sacrifice that parents hope to live up to.  Parents are also similar to God in the sense that their children get so used to them providing and caring for them that the children often forget to say ‘thanks.’  Let us all say thank you to our mother’s today and thank you to God in heaven for giving them to us and us to them.


Remember also the Church is the bride of Christ and the Church is our Mother.  We also have to allow God to nourish us through our Mother Church and the Sacraments He gives Her.

Here is a song specifically about the love of mothers: http://danielhoover.bandcamp.com/track/susan-marie

Happy Mother’s day to all of you beautiful mothers out there, especially my mother, Susan Marie and my sister, Chelsea Hoover.

Let us ask Mary, the Mother of God, to pray for us on this Mother's day.

A child of Love,

Daniel Hoover