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I find Mothers Day …complicated… and I’m sure I’m not the only one.

If your mum’s not around, or you never had one (or you wish you hadn’t had that one). if your arms are empty, or you’re exhausted by so many kids or just not feeling the happy families vibe.

If you’re feeling like a failure, a fraud, or forgotten today, here’s space to be honest about it.

It took my husband and I seven years of actively trying- expensive treatments, special diets, the right undies, and all, to become parents.

Anytime I’d be a bit salty about Mother’s Day, I’d be told “it’s not about you, it’s about YOUR mother” or “but you’ve been Like A Mother to so many young people” and all I wanted was someone to recognise that it’s possible to be happy about aspects of a thing while also being utterly devastated by it.

So, if you’re having Feelings™️ about today,you can let them out here, no one will judge.

I said, NO ONE will judge, right? And I didn’t stutter. Be kind, people.

It’s Friday, but Sundays coming, right?

Or, in my case, it’s already Saturday!!

What are you doing to prepare for worship this weekend?

My ideal is for “no sound of hammers inside the temple”, referencing that the noisy work of shaping the stones for rebuilding the temple was done off site -, meaning there’s no preparation work still being done when it comes time to worship.

It’s a lovely aspirational goal, but our people resources don’t work that way.

Our congregation is anything between 80-140, music team entirely self-taught-and-rarely-practices (including me, to be fair 😝)

I don’t run the roster, so I can’t explain why this week, the good drummer is playing learner guitar, which means the brass player will play …adequate drums, on the same day as we have the learner bass player, and because I’m leading, I’ll be at the low spec keyboard upstage not the baby grand at the back (eye contact) and only paying half attention to my fingers.

It’s going to be a joyful noise, I guess?

I have a running theme of God being good no matter the circumstance eg Blessed be the Name, and Praise (that elevation one) so I have scriptures on that theme that I need to print. I’ll distribute them ready to give opportunity for people to either pop up and share a testimony, or read the scripture they got.

I’m amazed at how many people who wouldn’t ordinarily speak up, will happily read a scripture, and the momentum of other people speaking seems to give courage to others to share something (as opposed to the awkward silence when you announce a testimony time)

The tech team are prepping today, they say have my list and visuals, there will still be some tweaking of arrangements in the morning as we run through/practice.

Even more so because half of the team weren’t able to make practice plus I switched out some songs we DID practice, because they went so badly.

Tonight my husband and I plan to go to the local beach to watch the sun set, which isn’t specifically part of it, just bonus.

TBH I don’t usually actually build worship into my prep. I should think about that!

What’s going on in your world?