Today is Mother’s Day. On this day we celebrate motherhood. We celebrate the challenges that many women have overcome to be called, “Mother.”
But it is also a day of sadness for many. There are many women who for a number of reasons have not been able to conceive. Some have lost babies. They are in heaven now. Some have known the joy of having their children with them for a few years, only to lose them to an unfortunate circumstance.
Some are dealing with the fact that their mothers are not with them this year. They are with Jesus this year on Mother’s Day. There are some who have never known their mothers. Their mothers abandoned them or gave them up for adoption or possibly died in childbirth. The reasons are many, but the pain is the same. It’s the pain of someone missing from my life.
I had the opportunity to pray with a beautiful young lady at church. Her mother passed away when she was four years old. I know that this day brings a measure of sadness for her. But I saw something in this young lady that I don’t often see in many young people who have had the privilege of knowing a mother and a father for their entire lifetime. She had strength, maturity, anointing, a calling, and a purpose. She is intelligent and loved. She is surrounded by friends who love her and encourage her.
As I prayed for her, I felt the Lord impress me to tell her that the pain and the struggle that she has endured throughout her life had played a part in forging her into the quality young person that she is.
It’s funny how pain works for our good. I guess it’s true, no pain, no gain.
James 1:2-4 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
The word of the day is, “no pain, no gain.”