Behold your mother…..this coming Sunday. 

Behold — look closely, observe, see, acknowledge, identify — your Mother.  

We all have or had one.

No matter what your memory, treasured for its overwhelming sense of love and acceptance and unconditional positive regard, or the sad antithesis of all that is good and associated with good mothers and mothering: behold your mother. 

Consider your mother as you would fine and treasured art, a masterpiece and, then, give thanks. 

Remember the good times. 

Recall the hard times, recall the challenges you gave to your mother and the challenges your mother brought to you. 

The woman you called mother brought to the unique relationship with you, experiences and heartbreaks and history of which you, as a child would know nothing. 

Yet, you’d know and experience and benefit, and even suffer the impact of it all, all she is, or was.

Behold, living or dead, known or unknown, behold, appreciate your mother. 

There is something wildly healthy about doing so be your mother saint or villain, victor or victim, well or unwell.

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Emotional Wellness and Living An Authentic Life will be my topics at The Westville Bowling Club on May 9, 2024. Please email Shirley@ShirleyWilliams.co.za for details in the event you’d like to attend. 

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Sunday, May 12, 2024 I shall have the privilege of delivering the Mothers Day sermon at the two morning services (7:30 and 9:15am) at Musgrave Methodist Church on the Berea.

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Saturday 11th from 9-12 with Terry Angelos at ST. Michael’s in Umhlanga…..