There will be mothers who won’t hear from their children this Mother’s Day.
Moms whose children are too ill to even call them. Moms whose children are too busy with their businesses, careers, families, or traveling for work or leisure.
There’ll be moms who won’t be reached by their children because they cannot be reached – and don’t want to be reached. Moms who abandoned their children. Moms who are living a “new life” and “taking care of themselves.”
There’ll be moms whose children won’t bring them out for lunch or dinner, won’t buy them flowers or gifts – simply because they cannot afford it. So, they’d rather stay away and keep quiet.
There’ll be children who won’t reach out to their moms because they’re still very angry at them; still hold deep grudges; cannot stand being in the same room with them. Maybe they were verbally, emotionally, or physically abused. And the pain, the memories of the brutality and cruelty just won’t go away.
There’ll be moms who won’t hear from their children because their children aren’t in their right minds – perhaps due to drug addiction, alcoholism, or other substance abuse that has muddled their thoughts, destroyed their sanity.
There’ll be children who won’t ever greet their moms because their mothers left them to live with another man or have committed adultery.
There are as many reasons as there are people who won’t reach out to their mothers on Mother’s Day. It’s a heartbreaking reality.
When I hear about cruel moms, destructive moms, irresponsible moms, narcissistic moms, my heart goes out to their children. But more than that, I pray that these damaged, hurting, abused children–despite all the pain inflicted on them – will rise up from the ashes of their miserable past and strive to be decent human beings who are capable of loving their own children. That they won’t perpetuate a vicious cycle.
As far as I know, as far as I’ve seen, ONLY JESUS can do this for us: heal the hurts, erase the pain even if one still remembers… and transform us into loving, trustworthy people. It’s only Jesus who can permanently break the cycle of hate, vices, addictions, immorality, cruelty, etc., in a family.
Jesus is the only one who can give us the power to forgive – the kind of forgiveness that sets us free, makes us whole, and turns things around so that even the most despicable things done to us can work out for our good. Yes, it takes a miracle.
I’m going to be praying for the forgotten or ignored moms today. Whatever brought them to the situations they’re in, may they surrender their lives to Jesus.
Only He can do the transformative work that needs to be done so that they can finally enjoy full and abundant lives.
Jesus unequivocally says, to this day: “I came that they may have life, and have it to the full.” (John 10:10) This is a truth that is applicable to all of us. It’s an offer that only a fool would refuse or ignore.
