Yesterday, Dale and I had many things to do. We decided to see how much we could get done in one trip into Martinsville. With the price of gas at $3.50 a gallon, we try to do our part to conserve. So I made a detailed list of everything we needed at each stop. I am not a detailed oriented person, but sometimes I need to be. One of the places we had to go was Hallmark, again. We found out that a friend of ours in New York had died and we wanted to get his sister a sympathy card. Dale decided that while we were there, he would pick up his Mother’s Day card. Just the thought of that was upsetting. Before we went to the mall, we had to pick up some supplies for the church at the local office supplies store. While we were there, the talk turned Mother’s Day.  As we talked to the woman who was helping us out, the discussion turned to what to do with Mother’s Day in the church. This is one holiday that pastors are finding a hard time with because we need to be sensitive of people’s feelings. Why? There are women in churches that cannot have children and it makes them feel not as important. Then, you have people like me who have lost mothers recently and the pain is still hard to bear.  I am not only the only one who lost my mother this year in our church. You also have others who if we do not do anything for Mother’s Day, their lives would be over. So how do we handle this day in the church without hurting any ones feelings? The good thing about this year is that we have Pentecost Sunday on Mother’s Day.  While we will tip our hat to mothers next week, most of our worship will be around the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The most enjoyable moment of the trip was when the Army recruiters waved to us before we went into the store. When we got to the sympathy cards, I decided that I was not ready to read them yet. Dale was looking at the Mother’s Day cards. Dale was my hero and help picked the sympathy cards for me. When we were done picking out the cards, I handed Dale my Hallmark Gold card and walked out of the store. We spent enough money to get a free gift which is a pig that I could play a game on the internet.

In addition to all that, Rebecca home for Mother’s Day. She is trying to get on a traveling team for her college and will have to stay there longer, which is a good thing since jobs here are hard to find.  I really hope it is true that sooner or later, the pain that I still have from my mom’s death will get lesser and lesser.