Here's Creek, good morning. It is fun to see those pictures. You can see we're going to have a little

different type of service today, and I'm so excited that you're here to be able to experience that

with us. My name is Blair Browning. I serve as one of the elders here at Harris Creek, and

appreciate the life group over there trying to influence the crowd.

But I love getting to serve this body and I love what we have in store for you today,

which is to hear from some of the elders' wives.

We've got a great day ahead.

But first, we want to acknowledge a huge milestone for many of you,

which this weekend was graduation. Did anybody

graduate this weekend? Oh, I love it. So many hands. I know that families are in town,

and so that is great to have you with us. We also have a graduate on stage. Don Holmes graduated with her

master's from Truitt this weekend. I believe started 27 years ago, literally, and through this time

has continued to take courses, and so that is an amazing accomplishment. We are so excited to celebrate

moms today. It's Mother's Day and we know that that day holds some tension because we know

that there are those of you in this room who would love to become moms. We know that there are those of

you here who have strained relationships with your mom, perhaps have even lost a mom.

We know that some of you in here are moms and have a strained relationship with a child or have lost a child.

And so we want you to know that just as scripture says in Psalm 34 that the Lord is near to the brokenhearted, that God sees you and that we see you. And so we are here

with you. And so we want to acknowledge that tension that in this world, in our broken world right now,

not everything is as it should be. And at the same time, there are a lot of joyful things that we

want to celebrate. So one day a year, which I think

we should all acknowledge should be a lot more, we want to pause and celebrate moms and honor them.

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