Here�s a litany for Mother�s Day from the Barnabas in Churches website.
They suggest that you �Select some individuals or groups (adults and children) from your congregation to read the sentences and verses given below during the service. After each reading, the congregational response is: �Loving Lord, thank you for your tender care.��
Call to Worship Litany for Mother�s Day
Today, we are giving thanks to God for the gift of mothers
and the mother-like nurture that many people show to others in their lives.
Isaiah wrote that God is a mother to us,
comforting and carrying us in her arms:
�As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you....� (Isa. 66:13)
Loving Lord, thank you for your tender care.
Isaiah also wrote that God would never forget us.
He knows each of us, like a mother knows her own children:
�Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
Though she may forget, I will not forget you!� (Isa. 49:15)
Loving Lord, thank you for your tender care.
David wrote that in God's presence,
he was quiet and at peace,
trusting his mother God like a child safe in loving arms:
�But I have stilled and quietened my soul;
like a weaned child with its mother,
like a weaned child is my soul within me.� (Ps. 131:2)
Loving Lord, thank you for your tender care.
Jesus spoke of himself as a mother,
longing to wrap his arms around us,
like a mother hen gathers her chicks under her wings:
�O Jerusalem, Jerusalem...
how often I have longed to gather your children together,
as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings,
but you were not willing.� (Matt. 23:37)
Loving Lord, thank you for your tender care.
Paul writes about his missionary ministry
and likens his work to that of a nurse who looks after those in her care:
��but we were gentle among you,
like a mother caring for her little children.� (1 Thess. 2:7)
Loving Lord, thank you for your tender care.
~ from the Barnabas in Churches website. http://www.barnabasinchurches.org.uk/a-call-to-worship-on-mothering-sunday/
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