Opening Prayers/Prayers of Adoration For Mother’s Day
You Carry Me
Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from your birth, carried from the womb, even to your old age I am he, even when you turn gray I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save. – Isaiah 46:3-4
Faithful One
You carry me before my first cry
You cradle me in my mother’s womb
You make me me and bless me with life
Faithful One
You carry me into my becoming
You bear me into a wider world
You inspire me and bless me with purpose
Faithful One
You carry me into maturity
You hold me as my flesh falters and fails
You assure me and help me pass on your blessing
Faithful One
You carry me into forever
You draw me to your breast
You save me and bless me with the fullness of you
I am born
I am borne
I am born again
You carry me through
Hallelujah, Amen.
You Carry Me © 2022 Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia, www.revlisad.com
Lord our Lord – How majestic is Your name in all the earth.
The sun’s light is but a dim flicker
next to the brightness of Your glory.
Your care is far more intimate
than that of a mother sparrow hovering over her next.
Your faithfulness is even more consistent
than the rising of the sun and the passing of seasons.
Your blessings come in showers that refresh and renew us
more than the spring rains.
And You meet us wherever we are –
in a sanctuary, on a lawn,
walking a beach, working in a desk,
driving a van full of kids to a ball game,
and laying our head on the pillow a night.
For who You are and all You do on our behalf,
We thank and praise You this morning.
Thank You for love shown us by dads and moms.
Thank you for grandparents …for sisters and brothers …
for friends, and even for strangers,
who grace our lives with kindness and care.
A Litany for Mother’s Day
Leader: Loving God, you know us through and through, having knit us together in our mothers’ wombs.
People: We praise you for gathering us like a mother hen, for protecting us with the ferocity of a mother bear, and for calming and quieting our souls like a weaned child with its mother.
Leader: We thank you for the gift of mothers and for the examples of faithful mothers in Scripture; for Hagar, who suffered and endured through great injustice to care for her son Ishmael.
People: We pray for all those mothers who persevere through poverty, violence, and persecution to try to provide for their children.
Leader: For Leah, who was unloved by her husband, and Rebekah, whose children battled even in her womb.
Women: We pray for all those mothers who labor to hold their families together in the midst of strife.
Leader: For Sarah, Elizabeth, and others who spent much of their lives desiring but unable to have children.
Men: We pray for all those women who, for various reasons, longed for children but were unable to become mothers.
Leader: For Mary and “the disciple Jesus loved,” who became surrogate mother and child when Jesus was on the cross.
Women: We thank you for surrogate mothers and mother figures who love and nurture students, nieces and nephews, neighbors, and other children.
Leader: For Naomi, who faithfully devoted herself to her widowed daughter-in-law.
Men: We pray for mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, thanking you for loving bonds and praying for healing where these relationships are frayed.
Leader: For the obedience and trust shown by Mary when she answered God’s call with “let it be with me according to your word.”
All: We thank you, God, for the love and faithfulness of mothers; for channeling your love through them; for magnifying your work in them. Bless them and strengthen them today for the important work you have called them to do. We pray this is the name of the son of Mary according to the flesh, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Darren Pollock