As we approach Mother’s Day, I invite you to pause and think of a memory of your mother—or the person who has filled that role in your life.
What is it about that memory that makes you feel loved, seen, or nurtured? Was it the way she showed her love through steady care, disciplined without judgment, or the simple comfort of sitting close together on the couch?
Was it in the way she packed that extra cookie in your lunch, planned your milestone celebrations with joy, taught you how to drive, or took you to your first concert? Was it in the difficult conversations—sitting you down for the talk you didn’t want to have, but later came to understand you needed? Or in the boundaries she set, like grounding you after you came home past curfew, always with love underneath it all?
Our mothers and mother figures have done all of these things while carrying so many roles—counselor, nurse, chef, chauffeur, tutor, and so much more. They moved through these roles with quiet strength and deep love, often without recognition, always with our best interest at heart.
All of it done to uplift and empower us toward greatness. All of it done to ensure our happiness, often placed gently above their own.
As I write this, I can still feel my mother’s touch, I remember being away at college for the first time, yearning for her touch. I didn’t realize until that moment how much of her love lived in those simple, everyday gestures. Her warmth, her presence, her gentle care, it was all communicated through touch, through closeness, through being held in ways words could never fully capture. That love stayed with me. It shaped me. And it continues to guide how I love my own children today.
What is your memory? What moment do you carry with you that still reminds you that you were deeply loved and cared for?
This message is for all of us—for those honoring mothers and mother figures, and for those of us who are mothers. As we celebrate the women who gave us life and love, we are also invited to honor ourselves. To recognize that the same care, sacrifice, patience, and devotion we see in others also lives within us.
Today we honor all mothers and mother figures, the ones who raised us, supported us, guided us, and held us through every season of life. We honor the visible and invisible ways they showed up, again and again, to ensure we had what we needed to grow, to thrive, and to become.
May we take a moment to remember them with tenderness. May we reach out and tell them—if we can—how deeply they are appreciated. And if they are no longer with us, may their love live on in the way we move through the world.
And may we also pause, gently and with gratitude, to honor ourselves—the love we give, the care we offer, and the quiet strength it takes to mother in all the ways we do.
Wishing you a very sweet and meaningful Mother’s Day.
