Amen and amen and good morning and welcome. You can be seated so glad you're here. Those of you

online we're glad that you're joining with us. You can see me. I can't see you but glad you're

with us. So I want to wish before we get started all the mothers the very best and most

blessed Mother's Day ever, ever. Yeah. Is that a good way? How's that for starters are we good notice I

conspicuously absent from that was any mention of happy mother's day no how

about I hope your mother's days blessed and the best ever but I also want to do this.

I want to encourage those for whom Mother's Day is a very difficult day.

Particularly those mothers that are mothers of wayward daughters or prodigal sons, I really want to encourage you

with something the Lord has encouraged me with and continues to.

Trust that the Lord loves them more than you ever could.

And there's actually three things here.

Trust the Lord.

You don't know where they are?

He always knows where they are.

You don't know what they're doing?

He always knows what they're doing.

The second thing is never, ever, ever give up on them.

And thirdly, always keep praying for them. Never give up on them. Always keep praying for them.

And you'll see what the Lord will do. Also, well, this is kind of a, I'm being a Debbie Donner, a Mother's Day, you know, it came out of the shoe, blessed, most best ever.

But then there's this other thing we need to talk about and well, there are those whose mothers are no longer with you.

And this is a hard day.

There are those longing to be mothers but are not able to.

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