Best Mother Award Goes To....

Phones will be ringing and florists will be delivering record numbers of bouquets this weekend since Mother's Day is Sunday. How are you planning to spend this day set aside to celebrate mothers everywhere?

Mother's Day will most likely bring up all sorts of emotions. For those of us with young children we look forward to homemade cards and perhaps piles of pancakes for 'breakfast in bed'. For others, Mother's Day may be marked with sadness due to a mother who has passed away during the previous year.

I particularly enjoy celebrating Mother's Day because I have two women to honor. My first mother, my birth mother, who gave me life and provided a family for me through adoption and my permanent mother who walked beside me each day of my life and reared me into adulthood. They are two very different women, but they are my two heroines! While I have inherited certain biological characteristics from one, I have also acquired learned characteristics from the other.

However you choose to spend Mother's Day I pray you will pause to remember the birth mothers who are rarely remembered on Mother's Day. These courageous women make life possible for their children and create stable homes in the arms of loving mothers who will care for them on a daily basis. I also hope you will pause and remember the adoptive mothers who have opened their homes to children who are not born of their flesh but have been born from the love of their hearts.

No Mother's Day would be complete without the opportunity to ooh and aah a little. So, take a peek at this video which illustrates mothers come in a variety of packages. Whether a child is born into or brought into a family does not matter. Whether the child looks like the mom or not has no bearing on his or her value and place within the family. The love of a mother remains the same.



Happy Mother's Day,
Julie

Internet Chat Room - Adoption

Christian Women Today is hosting a chat room discussion on adoption tonight @ 9 p.m. EST. CWTis a division of Campus Crusade for Christ Canada. I have had the great pleasure to work with these dedicated ladies over the past decade and can assure you of their dynamic and effective Christ-centered ministry to women. Tonight I will be the guest moderator in their chat room. These Internet chat rooms are incredible places where women can log on, maintain anonymity and seek answers to questions they may be anxious to ask in regular situations. Tonight we will be discussing adoption specifically, but they have a series of ongoing topics they discuss. Be sure to tag their site so you can visit for future chats.

If you are able to join us tonight click this link to get to the chat room. Then create a user name for yourself (i.e. sunshine, bubbles, etc.) To keep it simple I will be "Julie S." for tonight. You do not need a password. Once you type in your user name you immediately gain access to the room. There will be a host (cwt) and co-host moderating the evening. Stop by to see the session in action and how the Body of Christ reaches out in love to those seeking answers, understanding and healing.

Have a great day. Hope to see you tonight!
His,
Julie Stobbe