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No other task is so under-appreciated and quickly passed over as motherhood. Even a mother who works outside of the home works her most important task is at home. Noses need wiping, and diapers require changing. A toddler peppering a woman with the staccato of “why” chews into sanity. Ask a mother how she is after being up with a sick child at night, and you will probably get a faint smile and a yawn-laced “I’m fine.” A mother does not raise a child to adulthood. She presents him to eternity—crafting in open laps and dirty cereal bowls. No one works harder at a task with more significant consequences. Even though man carved Mother’s Day into the second Sunday in May, it captured the heart of God, for you read of the Hannahs and the Marys, the easily forgotten bearers and shapers of life. So, today, we do more than applaud mothers and pin a corsage on a lapel. We stop and say, “thank you for giving to the Lord as well as your family.” Even if no one else knows what you do, the Lord does. -Robert G. Taylor-  

Dave Welding has a problem. He can only listen to one station. He has a Mazda that, for some reason, had the “connectivity master unit” fried. Now, his clock doesn’t work, his navigation system is dark, and his Bluetooth is becoming a faded memory. But the one that bothers him most is now he can only listen to Seattle station KUOW, a talk channel. He has no other options. Something happens when a life hears only one station, the one the world plays. It absorbs the negative, and the soul becomes cynical. Our society bombards us with alarming messages, from politics to war to finger-wagging protestors of all stripes. No wonder we have a world find with so much tension. Paul reminds us that the messages we hear constantly reshape our hearts. He instructs: “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.” (Philippians 4:8–9) While the Mazda has no other choice, you and I do. Change the channel your soul listens to. You don’t have to keep listening to the junk. -Robert G. Taylor-