Well, good morning, church. If you've got your Bibles, and I hope you do, grab them and go to Acts

Chapter 14. As you can tell, we don't take ourselves very seriously around here, but we take our

relationship with God very, very seriously. And I have no idea where we find those kids, but they say all

kind of stuff, don't they? Hey, listen, it's obviously Mother's Day, and we want to say, happy Mother's Day.

Can we give a hand?

All the mamas in the room.

And so, moms, you make the world go around, all right?

I mean, without you, imagine the mess this world would be in without moms, right?

Moms are just a picture of the

gospel they never stop pursuing there's no mess too big they love no matter what and so happy

mother's day to you and um watching my wife be a mom really helps me appreciate my mom amen dads right

and all the mess that she went through with me. So,

uh, happy Mother's Day. We're so stoked that you're here. Also, there's another group of

women that are here and you're not a mom, nor did you ever want to be. And you say, thank God, right?

So don't feel some kind of church pressure like everybody's got to be a mom. And then there's a third group, or maybe more. Maybe there's lots of groups. I've never been a mom or a woman, so I'm not sure I'm guessing.

But there's some of you, lots of you in the room, and Mother's Day is super painful for a number of reasons.

Some of you want to be a mom more than anything you're made of, and it hasn't happened for you yet or maybe it's not happening

the way you hoped and one of the things we were talking about this on staff one third of the families

on our staff have have walked through either miscarriage or infertility or something along those lines

and so we just want you to know that you are loved and you are in this, you are in the right place.

And we just love you and want to walk with you.

Some of you, Mother's Day, is tough because of your mom.

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