Mother's Day

Often at church on Sundays the pastor would exhort us not to confine our religious devotions to one day a week, but to think of Jesus and follow his precepts every day.  The idea is certainly laudable, at least for anyone who professes to be a Christian, but most people seem to have a difficult time actually putting it into practice.  So they fall back on Sunday.

This morning the children brought their cards to Mommy and promised to be nice to her all day, a promise honored largely in the breach.  I was struck once again by the enormity of appreciating mothers only once a year, when every day Mommy does a thousand things, large and small, to help her children survive and thrive.  Surely, every day should be Mother's day!  But just as the Israelites (and most of the Republican party) constantly turned away from God, so do children invariably neglect and mistreat their mothers.  Even on Mother's Day.