Gracious Father, we give thanks this day for the matriarchs of our faith – the women in Scripture and all the women whose lives and witness have formed and shaped our lives into the men and women we are today. We praise you for all their lives and the ways in which you witnessed to the world through them and for the ways in which each woman demonstrated your love in the world. We are grateful you brought them into our lives and celebrate the women who have died and those who remain with us today – who, both dead and living – continue to influence us and help us grow into the people you created and continue to create. We lift up to you this day all men and women who are celebrating this day set apart to honor mothers without their mother for the first time. Hold them close, comfort them, and fill them with your peace. And, we lift up to you all women who are with child or children in their wombs – may mother and child/children – know the blessing they are to one another and how precious the gift of life growing within her is. You created each of us in your image and likeness – thank you for the mothers who birth and raise us – physically and spiritually. In Jesus’ name through power of Holy Spirit we pray. Amen.
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