Mothering Sunday

Mothering Sunday

Wishing you all a safe and blessed Sunday

During this time when we are unable to join together in worship, we will be sending out weekly newsletters like this one, with prayers, readings from the Bible and blessings so that we may be together in faith and in the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

So we wish you all - Mothers, Fathers, children and Grandparents every blessing this Mothering Sunday.

Gentle, Patient God  [From The Mother’s Union]

Today we thank God for the gift of mothers and mothering across  the world.  Isaiah wrote that God is a mother to us, comforting and carrying us in her arms.
As one whom a mother comforts, so I will comfort you – Isaiah 66:13.

Gentle, patient God – thank you for your tender care.

Isaiah also wrote that God will never forget us and that he knows each one of us just as a mother knows her own children.

Can a woman forget her baby at her breast, feel no pity for the child she has borne? Even if these were to forget, I shall not forget you. Isaiah 49:15

Gentle, patient God – thank you for your tender care.

David wrote that in God’s presence, he was quiet and at peace, trusting his God like a child safe in its mother’s arms.
No I hold myself in quiet and silence, like a child in its mothers’ arms. Psalm 131:2

Gentle, patient God – thank you for your tender care.

Jesus spoke of himself as a mother, longing to wrap his arms around us like a mother-hen gathering her chicks under her wings.
How often have I longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings… Matthew 23:37

Gentle, patient God – thank you for your tender care.