05/10/2026
However Mother's Day looks for you, I'm thinking of you today. John Gray says it so well.
🌹 Someone asked me to share this again. I wrote it years ago, just before Mother’s Day. 🌹
💔 When The Calendar Breaks Your Heart 💔
Stroll through a card shop or click around the TV channels and the odds are good you’ll see some mention of Mother’s Day. It’s a wonderful sentiment, setting aside a day to honor the moms out there. God knows they deserve it. Many deserve 365 days of praise.
People holding and kissing babies or mom’s opening a card or getting breakfast in bed. The ads tell us how wonderful the day is.
But it can also be a very difficult time for women for a variety of reasons.
Some perhaps had and lost a child.
Others may have been trying for years to conceive and it hasn’t happened yet.
Many people loved and lost their mom and this Sunday is a stark reminder of an empty chair at the table.
My mom‘s been gone about 20 years, but I still talk to her and feel her hand silently rest on my shoulder, as if to say, “I’m still with you.”
Some people have strained or difficult relationships with their moms or children and this ‘special day’ is a difficult reminder of what they don’t have.
I’ll put up a nice post about all the moms out there on Sunday, but I didn’t want to forget about the millions of women (and men) who might find this weekend difficult to navigate. They’ll smile and nod at the mom‘s holding hands with a child in the supermarket, while, a small part of them, deep inside in that secret place where sadness hides, will ache.
Amidst your joy, spare a kind thought for those who find this weekend a bit heartbreaking.
And if you know of someone who might be struggling this Sunday, reach out if only to say hello and let them know you have your arms wrapped around them, even if they can’t see it .
-john