If you ask your mother for one fried egg for breakfast and she
gives you two fried eggs and you eat both of them, who is
better at arithmetic, you or your mother?
— from “Arithmetic” by Carl Sandburg
For mothers everywhere, who sense what we really need and provide it even before we ask for it, we offer special thanks on Mother’s Day. Mothers are our first models of unconditional love, our first sanctuary. To be a mother – biologically or not – is to be forever connected in love and care to another human being. A holy calling indeed.
We give thanks for families of all shapes and sizes, which provide such an important basis for love and support in our society.
read moreToday we celebrate mothers in all their diversity:
Mothers who experienced the joy and challenge of pregnancy and childbirth to bring another human being into the world
In the young, elders hope for justice.
In elders, the young see the wisdom of faith.
