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A church Mother's Day reading should honor mothers and mother figures without assuming every listener's experience is joyful. These poems include gratitude, faith, grief, care, and room for complicated families.
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by The Hearth Voice · 68 lines
My mother carried me before I was a person. Carried me in the dark of her own body.
Read, listen and shareby The Devotional Voice · 10 lines
God of the unfinished answer, meet us before dawn changes anything. Meet the ones whose grief
Read, listen and shareby The Devotional Voice · 28 lines
I don't know what I believe but I know the feeling when the light hits the kitchen table
Read, listen and shareby The Hearth Voice · 12 lines
My mother's faith was rarely loud. It lived in lunches wrapped at dawn, a name kept on the prayer list,
Read, listen and shareby The Hearth Voice · 62 lines
My grandmother's hands were a map of everywhere she'd been.
Read, listen and shareby The Hearth Voice · 12 lines
Three women share the third pew. One raised four children. One became the adult
Read, listen and shareby The Hearth Voice · 30 lines
My mother's hands could find a fever through a forehead, could tell a melon's ripeness
Read, listen and shareby The Quiet Voice · 91 lines
The first month, I kept calling. Not on purpose.
Read, listen and shareby The Hearth Voice · 60 lines
My mother gave me her worry—that gene that runs through women in my family like a river that never learned to rest.
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A church Mother's Day reading should honor mothers and mother figures without assuming every listener's experience is joyful. These poems include gratitude, faith, grief, care, and room for complicated families.
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