CSN - Sunday LightWing Messages - Mother’s Day Edition

5/11/2025

May 11, 2025

For the Lord comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones. But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.”

“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne?

Though she may forget, I will not forget you!

See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me. Your children hasten back, and those who laid you waste depart from you. Lift up your eyes and look around; all your children gather and come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the Lord, “you will wear them all as ornaments; you will put them on, like a bride.

“Though you were ruined and made desolate and your land laid waste, now you will be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.

The children born during your bereavement will yet say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; give us more space to live in.’

Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who bore me these? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. Who brought these up? I was left all alone, but these—where have they come from?’”

This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“See, I will beckon to the nations, I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their hips.

Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who hope in me will not be disappointed.”

Can plunder be taken from warriors, or captives be rescued from the fierce?

But this is what the Lord says:

“Yes, captives will be taken from warriors, and plunder retrieved from the fierce; I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save.” …Isaiah 49:13-25 (NIV)

FOUNDER’S MESSAGE:

This past two weeks I have been involved in moving from the city I have called home for nearly 40 years. I am offering my life to God on a deeper level after so many of those years. As stated last week, I am following the calling I have received. I am not totally sure where it will lead at this point, but during this time, I have become more internally aware of how the Hebrew people may have felt as they wrestled with the life-altering move that they would make in following Moses as he led them away from slavery. For me, many changes are already occurring before I even get to my new mission. I view it as a journey of faith to one degree or another. However, this edition is not about me; it is to be focused on the celebration of Mother’s Day. So today, let’s celebrate the genuine Mother’s who truly are a fountain of love for their families.

In all honesty, the family is at the core of the society and mothers are at the core of the family.

It is no real mystery that the enemies of life, the enemies of liberty, and the enemies of enjoying the fruits of freedom want to tear down that true core of our beloved society. Today, Mother’s Day is a simple way of honoring mothers of all races and all nations and faith traditions. So, we humbly offer the gift of righteous words for all the moms out there who may be going through all the ups and downs of being a mom. Though the suffering may seem unbearable at times, truly the joys of life are often advanced by the grateful children of loving mothers. HAPPY MOM’S DAY to all those Moms who manage to weave their struggles and suffering into true love!!!

If this is seeming too idealistic and not taking into account the “real world” that everyone has to confront everyday, it is because such expressions represent the higher ideals that God has put into our minds from past ages. While the faithful must account for the world in which we live, we still can strive for placing greater emphasis on the ideal of what good mothers should be when they do not let the “real world” overwhelm them. Good mothers fight through the garbage of that real world to offer themselves to their offspring and to raise them to also fight through the world of garbage they will face in their lives to become people of goodness. Countless stories exist of people who give credit to their mothers who had helped them become better or great people. We do not need scientific studies to verify this. The witness to the truth of this is enough.

Good mothers help their children to become good people. Satan knows this, and knows that such moral strength is critical for a healthy society to have solid and stable families. Confucius knew this in the ancient Chinese civilization long ago and taught about the value of the family to a civil society. The ancient Hebrews knew the value of the family, and were taught by God how important the raising of children of goodness was to the survival of their people. God taught His children; it was their responsibility to follow through. What we experience now is the outcome of how well they learned and how well they put into practice His guidance. Obviously, beginning with Eve, there have been bad mothers throughout human history.

My own mother gave me up for adoption, so I never had a genuine relationship with my real biological mother. But, I have wondered if I had been conceived just one decade later, whether the culture would have encouraged or empowered my biological mother to kill me while I was growing inside of her. In reflecting more deeply on this reality, we live in a culture that is truly worse than Sodom and Gomorrah, and by God’s grace, I was spared dismemberment and a cold, cruel death. That is why it is important to create an alternate culture – one that celebrates the value of good mothers. Good mothers are needed in such a time as this to help the children to seek and find the rays of hope – the rays of light in the midst of the darkness. That is what good mothers are able to do in times of darkness – they raise their children to become people of goodness. That was God’s original blueprint – that is still His Will! We all need to pray and behave in ways that God’s Will will prevail in such a time as this.

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It is important to receive God’s blessings and fruit that continue to come as a result of the 2024 election. It is also just as important to maintain a vigilant awareness and prayer focus to protect the efforts being made during this time of the new Administration – an eradication of the damage that was done to America as we are proceeding to move past the past.

These words are being freely offered to you – intended to shine light unto our paths, as written: “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” Proverbs 29:18 - (KJV)

Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 - (NKJV)

May God bless our readers who are Moms. May God be with All His Children!

May we honor the mothers (and fathers) who raise their children in the ways of the Lord. May we help the children and guide them to seek His Kingdom and His righteousness in these days. May we seek to know more His Will and to practice more His guidance for all of us to seek His righteousness, especially to seek His Kingdom first in such a turbulent time as this.

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The Purpose of Mother’s Day is to Truly Honor the Love of Good Mothers

By Dennis Jamison May 9, 2025

Many Americans honor mothers on the second Sunday in May on the holiday tradition known as Mother’s Day. Yet, for others in the nether realms, the national holiday does not mean much because mothers do not have much value in their worldview or politically-driven agendas. Within these realms also exists outright hostility to mothers because motherhood requires the selfless giving of oneself to their children and their families. Selfish and self-centered people detest selfless giving of oneself. Obviously, the concept of selfless giving of oneself, is a Christian concept to a large degree. We just celebrated another holiday of remembering the greatest act of selfless giving the world has witnessed thus far. The way of the cross is repulsive to selfish people and they are not easily capable of condoning such selflessness, let alone understanding the giving of one’s life for the sake of God’s Providence.

Certainly, one can wonder about the true value of motherhood within American culture today, with more than tongue-in-cheek pondering. A legitimate question that can be asked in America: Is motherhood truly an honorable position in the twenty-first century? This can be a legitimate concern in the bigger picture. More dramatically, in light of the political defense of the activities of Planned Parenthood in selling baby parts in the United States, this truly represents insidious and visible expressions of the moral sickness that Americans suffer from via rationalization for the murder of unborn children, and consequently the selling of the body parts of the living beings they dismembered.

Only a few years ago, just before the COVID time, a San Francisco, California jury ruled against David Daleiden as well as other undercover investigators for exposing the Planned Parenthood operatives who were arranging to sell their aborted baby body parts. This not only exposes the true objective of the purpose of killing unborn children, it exposes the anemic value such people place on life itself, consequently as well as motherhood. This truly represents a tragedy within a supposedly Christian culture and a nation rooted in genuine faith. No matter what people think of Nelson Mandela, it was he who stated: “There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.” Mandela stated this in a speech he gave on May 8, 1995 when he launched the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, as he spoke about building a new South Africa. The point is not that Mandela said this, but the realization of the truth of it might be able to stimulate Americans to action within the corruption of our contemporary culture.

This concept of how a civilization or culture treats its most defenseless members has been spoken about before by many people in a variety of ways with a focus upon various “victims” of a particular society or nation. The recent years of departure in American society from the value our leaders once placed upon life itself is more than evident to many good people, and when a culture does not have any genuine respect toward life, the ones who bring new life into this God-forsaken world become targets of derision, disrespect, and marginalization. This is how mothers are treated in our contemporary culture. To celebrate motherhood is controversial in such a corrupt culture. To celebrate Mother’s Day in such a corrupt culture may be deemed an act of subversive activity in such a society in this day. Loving moms and dads have been viewed as “domestic terrorists” by specific government administrations. It reveals who we have become as a land dedicated to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” When individual happiness is so self-centered that it replaces life and liberty, it reveals the favored values of those individuals who promote death and dismemberment of human beings as “normal reality.”

During severe growing pains in American history, similar sentiment existed among some of the slave-owners in our society. Such contemporary “reality” is a reminder that legislators in Virginia passed a law on May 6, 1782 specifically intended to challenge slave owners to take more true responsibility for their “property” until their slaves eventually died, rather than try to dump the costs of caring for an old or unproductive freed slave upon the rest of the taxpayers. This law allowed for owners with the right frame of mind to free their slaves on their own accord, under two conditions: either at the sale of their land, or through their will. Upon the sale of land, slaves could go free without the transfer of the deed to the land. It is how George Washington freed his slaves. Up to this point, it was common practice under the local British regime to allow any slave owners to dump old and feeble slaves by the side of the road like people dump cats or dogs off on side roads today. So, our culture has been evolving since the days of its inception.

It is odd how much the morality of the nation has changed since 1782, and also how it has changed from the days in which the seeds of Mother’s Day were planted during the time of the American Civil War. Today, it is considered “normal” to convince young prospective mothers to commit the murder of their own unborn children so they can continue to pursue their perverted pursuit of personal happiness. An entire industry has been born from such a perversion of such God-centered values. The good mothers of today must be brave and courageous and bold. It takes women dedicated to the preservation of such traditional Judeo-Christian values that must raise children in such a toxic, anti-life type of environment.

At the time of the American Civil War, it is likely that thousands upon thousands of mothers questioned their value as over 620,000 boys and men died as a result of the Civil War – the greatest number of Americans that have died in any war the country has been involved in throughout its existence. That horrendous war represented an incredibly confusing time for most Americans. The concept of families divided and brother fighting against brother was unthinkable, but it is history. But that war, in part, was fought to end the enslavement of human beings, an institution that a majority of people deemed as “normal.” Mothers, on both sides of the political divide, were torn because they mainly saw the danger of a son (or husband) dying in such a “senseless” war. Ironically, the ‘seeds’ of Mother’s Day were planted during the Civil War.

In such a time, the nation was deeply divided, and the war brought sheer destruction – not just with physical structures within the cities and the farmland in the rural areas, but it created deeply ingrained and long lasting emotional scars that would take decades of healing, and America is still in the process of healing from such division and destruction. During this war, and very long afterwards, those who were left to pick up the pieces had to deal with the physical loss of sons and fathers, as well as the deep emotional loss of loved ones. Ending slavery in America came at an incredibly great cost; the price of taking responsibility to do the right thing was quite high.

It was in the midst of such devastation that many women began to form women’s friendship clubs for the purpose of healing the emotional wounds left open within the devastated nation. Even before the war, Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis was one of those active women who organized a number of “Mothers Day Work Clubs” in her local area of in Taylor County, West Virginia, to combat the unsanitary circumstances and poor health conditions that contributed to a high mortality rate among children in the Appalachian area of West Virginia.

Sadly, Mother Jarvis lost eight of her eleven children before they reached the age of seven as they died of diseases like diphtheria, measles, and typhoid fever. With the loss of so many children, Jarvis and her brother, who was a doctor, tried to help communities in the area reduce the frequency of such childhood diseases as well as unsanitary conditions. Dr. James Reeves, her brother, was known for his work to limit the spread of typhoid fever in West Virginia, and he was able to provide valuable health advice to club members. The clubs also helped educate mothers about improving sanitary conditions to cut down the incidence of disease and infant mortality, and raised money to purchase medicine for poorer families.

These social action brigades, which later became known as Mothers Friendship Clubs, also taught mothers the importance of boiling water and demonstrated how to prevent food from spoiling, as well as other antiseptic practices. They also helped to provide nursing care for the sick, and arranged proper medical attention for those who were suffering from tuberculosis. When the Civil War started, Ann Jarvis’ Mothers’ Friendship Clubs had to adapt, and to alter their efforts to meet the changing and conflicting realities of the war. Mother Jarvis insisted the clubs declare their neutrality, so that they could provide aid to either the Confederate or the Union soldiers.

During the Civil War, the state of Virginia split apart, just like the nation divided. Landowners in the western portion, who owned very few or no slaves, did not want to separate from the Union as did slave owners who lived in the eastern section of the state. Due to the war, western Virginia seceded from the state of Virginia after the eastern landowners pulled Virginia out of the Union. Then, this area became a crossroads for both Confederate and Union armies that were either advancing into enemy territory or retreating from it, almost serving as a doormat for the movement of the troops. In essence, West Virginia became a microcosm of the Civil War.

Within such a toxic environment, Mother Jarvis gathered four of these clubs together and made a request that the members pledge to one another that their friendship and goodwill would not become the victims of the war that had started to rip apart the nation. She asked the clubs: “To make a sworn-to agreement between members that friendship and good will should obtain in the clubs for the duration and aftermath of the war. That all efforts to divide the churches and lodges should not only be frowned upon but prevented.”

It was important that the clubs remained neutral, as it enabled them to provide aid and nursing assistance to soldiers from both sides during the divisive and destructive conflict. Through the leadership of Mother Jarvis, the clubs provided food and clothing, and nursed the wounded soldiers from both Union and Confederate forces. They also helped directly when various diseases would break out in the ranks of either military unit. Mother Jarvis was an exceptional woman who did more than simply survive the death and destruction of the Civil War in West Virginia, and It is estimated that these women’s groups saved many lives.

The area around Taylor County near where the Jarvis home was located, served as a staging area for both Confederate and Union troops and supplies to be shipped in either direction because of the Wheeling-Staution Pike railroad. Confederates made their way up into Ohio and Pennsylvania and Union troops used the way as a “backdoor to the South.” The local area at one time served as Gen. George B. McClellan’s headquarters. Under such extreme conditions, on May 1, 1864, Ann Marie and her husband, Granville, gave birth to a daughter whom they named Anna Jarvis. Ann Jarvis through her mother’s love and her unselfish attitude, hard work, and sacrifice would prove to be the inspiration for her daughter when Anna grew up and became the founder of Mother’s Day in the U.S.

When the war was over, Ann Jarvis and her community based Mother’s groups proved instrumental in promoting the fragile peace between formerly divided friends and neighbors. They served as a healing element within the polarized community and worked as peacemakers as they encouraged families to work out their differences and resentment brought about by the war. By 1868, Jarvis had conceived of a family day picnic which she called “Mother’s Friendship Day” in order to honor all mothers, with a deeper goal of reuniting politically divided families. Her ultimate goal was to create a lasting memorial regarding the value of mothers.

Unfortunately, Mother Jarvis passed away on May 9, 1905, just over two years after her husband passed away. At her mother’s gravesite, Anna recalled a prayer that Ann Marie, offered during a lesson on “Mothers in the Bible.” Her mother had taught Sunday school in Grafton, West Virginia for seven years, and when Anna was twelve years old, she vividly remembered that her mom’s concluding prayer (essentially paraphrased) was: “I hope that someone, sometime will found a memorial mother’s day commemorating her for the matchless service she renders to humanity in every field of life.”

Anna’s brother Claude heard his sister reflecting on their mother and the dream expressed in that prayer, and heard the pledge that Anna Jarvis made that day at the gravesite that: “by the grace of God, you shall have that Mother’s Day.” As a result of years of determined effort by her loving daughter, Anna Jarvis, out of deep respect and genuine love, worked tirelessly after her mother died, to carry on her mother’s work to create a Mother’s Day memorial. Finally her determined efforts achieved ultimate success on May 9, 1914, when President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation declaring the first national Mother’s Day.

Anna Jarvis may have expressed it best when she once explained her purpose in establishing such a day:

“To revive the dormant filial love and gratitude we owe to those who gave us birth. To be a home-tie for the absent, To obliterate family estrangement… To make us better children by getting us closer to the hearts of our good mothers… To brighten the lives of good mothers. To have them know we appreciate them, though we do not show it as often as we ought… Mother’s Day is to remind us of our duty before it is too late. This day is intended that we may make new resolutions for a more active thought to our dear mothers. By words, gifts, acts of affection, and in every way possible, give her pleasure, and make her heart glad every day, and constantly keep in memory Mother’s Day.”

It is definitely hard to repay all that a good and loving mother has given, or will give to her children and to other loved ones, but Anna Jarvis worked very hard in attempting to offer her gratitude to her mother, and gave all of us an opportunity to say thank you to our Moms “by words, gifts, acts of affection, and in every way possible…”

Happy Mother’s Day to all Good Moms everywhere!

Let’s Celebrate Natural Family Month!

A positive approach to repairing our nation. James Harrison, National Director of Natural Family Strong www.naturalfamilystrong.com is honoring a new holiday to celebrate

the Family! In concert with other local community leaders, Natural Family Strong is proposing all Americans consider the time period between Mother's Day in May thru Father's Day in June as an annual celebration of the Natural Family. It is now! They need help to make it happen.

There is already some traction with that effort because New Hampshire has passed the first official State Natural Family Proclamation. State Representative Claudine Burnham, was able to get this passed in the Granite State. Other states need to follow New Hampshire and officially pass a state Natural Family Proclamation. Contact local leaders to help to make it happen.

Suggested links:

Natural Family Month there are four informative links on the site including a section that shows you how to have a natural-family-festival or just sign the Natural Family Foundation Resolution

The dates of the celebration this year starting on mother's day May 11th. You can order yard signs, print out to hand to family friends and neighbors in such a time as this.

For more information, please call 614-890-4008 for more details; don't hesitate to leave a message. Or reply to: christianminman@gmail.com Let us know if you’re interested in participating.

Time to Celebrate Natural Family Month!