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So I'd encourage you to ask the Lord today. How can you honor your earthly mother, whether she's alive or not? You can honor her today.

Well, as we head into Mother's Day weekend, we have a thoughtful message for you from Liz Curtis Higgs. Thanks for joining us today. This is Focus on the Family with Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller.

It's right, John. Liz is going to give us a unique perspective on Mother's Day by sharing some fascinating details of a story many of us know quite well.

The first miracle of Jesus, the turning of water into wine. I think you'll be intrigued by the role Mary, the mother of Jesus, played in that situation.

Liz Curtis Higgs is an award-winning author and speaker and is perhaps best known for her book series called The Bad Girls of the Bible.

Liz serves as the director of spiritual formation at Christ Church United Methodist in Louisville, Kentucky.

And this message was recorded there at the church just last year for Mother's Day. Here now Liz Curtis Higgs on today's episode of Focus on the Family.

So blessed, so blessed. Interesting though this weekend to have Derby Day and Mother's Day right next to each other. I'm sure it must happen.

I just can't remember the last time it did. And it just has really struck me how some things they have in common other things not at all.

But we do in both cases, we love roses, either Saturday or Sunday roses work. Mother's Day or Derby Day, great excuse to wear a hat.

I'm wondering, I see at least one hat in the crowd today. I almost wore my hat. Then I thought it would be distracting and that's the last thing I want to do.

However, we do want to point to Jesus up here and wow did this hat point to Jesus. It had a feather that went straight up. But I was afraid you wouldn't pick up on that.

The other thing about Derby Day and Mother's Day in both cases, the emotions run really high at a fever pitch really.

Yesterday you had great joy if you put money on rich strike, what a well-named horse. But you had sorrow if you bet on summer is tomorrow.

And we should have known better because summer is June 21st. It's not tomorrow, so we should have known.

The Kentucky Derby, however, is nothing compared to the roller coaster ride wrapped around the word mother. It's a very complicated relationship.

This woman who risked her life to give birth to you, if you think about that, she risked her life.

She did and willingly and joyfully. And that was in the end of it all through your life she made one sacrifice after another to raise you.

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