Saw this floating around Facebook this weekend and was moved to tears by it. Wanted to share.

A Blessing for Mother’s Day:

May you know that God is with you if you are like Tamar, struggling with infertility, or a miscarriage.

May you know that God is with you if you are like Rachel, counting the women among your family and friends who year by year and month by month get pregnant while you wait.

May you know that God is with you if you are like Naomi, and have known the bitter sting of a child's death.

May you know that God is with you if you are like Joseph and Benjamin, and your Mom has died.

May you know that God is with you if your relationship with your Mom was marked by trauma, abuse, or abandonment, or she just couldn't parent you the way you needed.

May you know that God is with you if you've been like Moses' mother and put a child up for adoption, trusting another family to love your child into adulthood.

May you know that God is with you if you've been like Pharaoh's daughter, called to love children who are not yours by birth, (and thus the mother who brought that child into your life, even if it is complicated).

May you know that God is with you if you, like many, are watching (or have watched) your mother age, and disappear into the long goodbye of dementia or Alzheimers.

May you know that God is with you if you, like Mary, are pregnant for the very first time and waiting breathlessly for the miracle of your first child.

May you know that God is with you if your children have turned away from you, painfully closing the door on relationship, leaving holding your broken heart in your hands. And like Hagar, now you are mothering alone.

May you know that God is with you if motherhood is your greatest joy and toughest struggle all rolled into one.

May you know that God is with you if you are watching your child battle substance abuse, a public legal situation, mental illness, or another situation which you can merely watch unfold.

May you know that God is with you in you like so many women before you do not wish to be a mother, are not married, or in so many other ways do not fit into societal norms.

May you know that God is with you if you see yourself reflected in all, or none of these stories.

This mother's day, wherever and whoever you are, we walk with you. Your are loved. You are seen. You are worthy.

And may you know the deep love without end of our big, wild, beautiful God who is the very best example of a parent that we know. Amen

(Adapted by Levi Bollerud, from a poem by Heidi Carrington Heath, from a prayer by Amy Young)