1. Mother’s Day: Birthed in Civic Activism & Defined by Faith!
“Arise then, Women of this day... Say firmly: Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. / Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. / From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with Our own. It says: ‘Disarm Disarm!’”
~1870
“sacred right”
ANN REEVES JARVIS
JULIA WARD HOWE
Anna Jarvis

2. “…it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them. I led them with cords of human kindness, with bands of love.” Hosea 11:2-3
Metaphor = ‘that figure of speech whereby we speak about one thing in terms which are seen to be suggestive of another.’

3. “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast     and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!  See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;     your walls are ever before me.” Isaiah 49:15

4. "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it!” Luke 13:34-35

5. “Language about God should help us to understand and encounter God, but we should not confuse the reality of God with the limits of our language.”
~Dr. Lynn Japinga
“Like a bear robbed of her cubs, I will attack them and rip them open” ~ Hosea 13:8

6. “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”
~ Genesis 1:27
“A metaphor suggests a web of associations that shapes how we think and act with regards to the thing about which we speak.”
~Kevin Antlitz

7. People, put your hope in the Lord both now and forevermore. ~Psalm 131
 My heart is not proud, Lord, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters     or things too wonderful for me. But I have calmed and quieted myself,     I am like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child I am content.
 People, put your hope in the Lord     both now and forevermore. ~Psalm 131