Hi Friends,

As Mother’s Day 2020 draws near, we want to say happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms out there! And to all the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, daughters and friends! We also want to say thanks to our Moms for helping to pave the way for us. Things are surely different than the Mother’s Days we’ve celebrated in the past, but this gives us an opportunity to find new ways to make this day special in its own way.

Sometimes it’s hard to find the right words to say, so we wanted to share some favorite quotes for Mother’s Day. Hopefully, a few of them will speak to you and you can repurpose them this weekend.

She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed… ~Proverbs 31:25-28a

Successful Mothers are not the ones that have never struggled, they are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles. ~Sharon Jaynes

Mothering is the gospel lived out as you hold your child’s heart in beauty, prayer, and patience. It’s not the big decision, but the little ones, trusting God through it all. ~Elizabeth Hawn

Be her “B. M. F.” (Best Mom First)…and the friendship will follow. ~Dr. Michelle Deering

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had. ~Linda Wooten

Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. ~ JK Rowling

Your sisters are the only people in the world who know what it’s like to have been brought up the way you were. ~Betsy Cohen

One of the most important relationships we’ll have is the relationship we have with our mothers. ~Iyanla Vanzant

The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. ~James E. Faust

When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ It’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway. ~Erma Bombeck

If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb

Motherhood is a million little moments that God weaves together with grace, redemption, laughter, tears, and most of all, love. ~Lysa TerKeurst

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete. ~Marcy DeMaree

It’s not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings. ~Ann Landers

A few of our anonymous favorites:

• Life doesn’t come with a manual. It comes with a mother.
• Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.
• Thank you for not telling my sisters that I’m your favorite.
• MOM turned upside down spells WOW.
• Only an aunt can give hugs like a mother, can keep secrets like a sister and share love like a friend.
• If at first you don’t succeed, try doing it the way your Mom told you to do it from the start.
• Nothing is really lost until your mom can’t find it.
• Every day I wake up and think: how on earth did I become this much like my mother?
• It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.
• Birth takes a woman’s deepest fears about herself and shows her that she is stronger than them.
• My nickname is “Mom” but my full name is “Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom.”
• Some days she has no idea how she’ll do it. But every single day. It still gets done.

We hope you’ve enjoyed these quotes and if one of them has resonated with you that you’ll use it in an email to somebody special in your life this weekend. Or in a quick text. Or included with a spring bouquet – or tucked inside a box of dark chocolates!

We will end with this quote by Jill Churchill, There’s no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one. We can each heed that advice. Daily. With God’s help.

Happy Mother’s Day!
Lisa
KGM Board Chair