Mother's Day

I find it intriguing that we celebrate a day which culturally we live against. Moms are not news makers (unless you happen to kill your children after they are born). Success for women in our culture is when they adopt all the characteristics of their male counterparts (How absurd is that when we are trying to get men to act more like women). Our world fails to realize the quiet influence woman have apart from the defined cultural successes of our day. Legacies are not built in boardrooms, they are defined in our homes and in our communities. My mom died in 1989. Our youngest daughter never had a change to experience the kind of influence she gave as a grandmother to our other children. This kind of influence goes beyond our boundaries of family. What is needed today, is people who will come along side of kids, teens and young adults and live out the possibilities of life. I'm getting close to the age my mom left this world. I now realize just how short her time was in this life. It causes me to ask, what is my legacy? What do I want people to say about me? I realize that "being the greatest Pastor in the world" is not what I want written on my gravestone. I would rather have my children and a few others live out the influence that was given to them. So to all the women out there - Happy Mother's Day - you are far more important than you realize.