Prayer for Mothers
Leader: Mothers come in diverse portraits, and today we celebrate the gifts of the spirit we readily observe in these portraits.
All: Thank God for mothers!
Leader: Each of us is a son or a daughter.
All: Thank God for my mother!
Leader: For women who have gone before us and left us legacies of love, endurance, and inspiration.
All: Thank God for the women we commemorate in our hearts and lives.
Leader: For every woman currently working to nurture, teach, and love her children.
All: Thank God for the mothers of today.
Leader: For women who have made children their own through adoption or foster care.
All: Thank God for women who know motherhood is unbounded.
Leader: For women who mourn the death of a child.
All: Thank God for grieving mothers who depend on God’s love.
Leader: For all women, with or without children, who have extended their gifts of nurture and affirmation to members of their communities.
All: Thank God for women who are mothers by heart! We thank you, Lord, for women who have influenced our lives in so many ways.
Mother’s Day Prayer
