Holding Love and Loss on Mother's Day

Mother’s Day can be beautiful for some and painfully complicated for others.

For some, it is a day of celebration.

For others, it is a reminder of who is missing.

Some are grieving mothers now in Heaven.

Some are carrying the heartbreak of a child they can no longer hold.

Some are longing to become mothers.

Some are mothering children while quietly grieving another.

And some are simply trying to make it through the day without their hearts unraveling.

If this day feels heavy for you, you are not alone.

Love does not end because someone is no longer here.

And motherhood does not disappear because a child lives in Heaven.

We carry them still.

In our hearts.

In our memories.

In the love that continues long after loss.

And for those of us blessed to still mother the children beside us while grieving the ones we cannot see, we hold both gratitude and sorrow at the same time.

Today, we honor every kind of mother heart.

The rejoicing ones.

The grieving ones.

And the quietly broken ones, too.

You are seen. And you are loved.

With love, Pat