By Rick Poleck

After what feels like a long and dreary season, winter is always somehow coerced into giving up its shades of steely gray to peeks of warming sunshine, welcome blue skies, intermittent dots and splashes of color, and the fragrances of floral displays called “spring.” The senses come alive, awakening a body’s dormant energies, and we suddenly feel that we’ve once again come alive.

I somehow do not think it a coincidence that God made seasons, although not so pronounced in some climates, but nonetheless, He did it, and all for our pleasure. With spring’s arrival, do we dare think it coincidence that the Son of God gave us new life and living hope during that same season? I think not. We innately welcome the things of spring for they somehow bring hope, light, joy, and a plethora of warming thoughts.

One of those thoughts is of the person who gave of herself that each of us might experience life. Through a miracle within her body, we were given birth into the springtime of life. That person is affectionately called mother. As my dad once told me, “Your mother was closest to death in giving you birth.” Do we really think of that when we are being less than kind or considerate to her? Probably not, but would we have opportunity to experience life’s seasons and the hope of spring had she not given of herself, in love?

Does the miracle of birth not remind us of a mother named Mary, who bore and nurtured a son called Jesus, who died and rose again to give us rebirth from our dying, sinful nature, and an eternity in heaven, if we but accept Him into our hearts? Can you see a mother’s bittersweet tears as she realized this in her heart?

Mother’s Day somehow falls on a Sunday in spring each year, and not by chance. It is deliberately so, for all the “things of spring” just naturally place her there, as a jewel in a crown. She not only gave birth, but nurtured and sacrificed for us as children, so we might experience all that being alive has to offer. But beyond that, a Godly mother taught us who is the Creator of all, and as we learn of Him and His purpose for us in life on this earth, we discover that this is not our home; we are but passing through to an eternal spring in heaven.

So, this Mother’s Day, don’t merely think of it as another opportunity for a Sunday dinner or a day to give Mom a card or flowers, but as the day to celebrate the occasion of her motherhood and all the glorious spring times of life to which she gave birth.

“Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her,” (Proverbs 31: 28)…, certain truth from the Creator of life. Ponder the wonders of it.

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Have a blessed Mother’s Day!

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