I just hate advertising, and Mother’s day is being quite overdone at the moment. All I can think to do is offer to give away my Good Mother Welcome Book, and my Mothering Prayer Accordion as a raffle among anyone who comments here. My girls are now 13 and nearly 18. I wrote Good Mother Welcome, and the Mothering Prayer when Rose was only 2, and when I was much wiser than I am now. Still, they are best sellers here, so you might want to know about them…
As mothers, we pray for a world of peace.
We pray for a world of joy.
We pray for the nourishment and safety of our children.
We pray for wonder, enthusiasm, goodness and truth;
For compassion, love, and kindness.
We pray for discipline and we pray for maturity.
We pray for courage and strength.
And we give thanks.
The way we live is the way we give thanks.
Let our lives be a dance of prayer and thanksgiving.
Your beautiful poem is timely for this moment. As a mother, I cherish the words,
“the way we live is the way we give thanks”. Thank you for inspiring my living this day.
I look forward to seeing all your new creative treats, that help me to heal, at the Wellfest!
a beautiful prayer which i will forward to my own mother in thanks. and thank you for adding beauty and serenity around you.
Dear Ingrid, I have not read this prayer in a long time, but it continues to nourish me. My son will be 22 this month, and I believe that all good mothers everywhere want this for their children. Thank you, and may you have a Blessed Mother’s Day!
Yes, it is amazing that as our children grow up, we experience stages of being very wise to being quite a simpleton. Then, by some magical spell, we are once again the source of all knowledge for the daughter who has been transformed into a mother as well. There is comfort in knowing that there is a time for every season, and being a mother is a journey through seasons bathed in prayers for our children.