On this Mother’s Day, we pray for women all over the world:
Mother God of Life and Spirit who created us,
knew us before we were knitted in our mother’s womb, who births in us the spirit of love and grace,
we pray this day for,
Women without access to prenatal or postnatal care.
Women without access to safe delivery.
Women who long for a baby in the womb but that day has not come.
Women who grieve a baby once in the womb but it is no more.
Women who gave birth but the baby was still.
Women with no choice for the space between and the risk it brings.
Women alone or isolated dreading the waters that break.
Women laboring, breathing, and pushing.
Women injured by birth with no repair.
Women who adopt a child.
Women who have to raise the child/children alone.
Women who place their child for adoption.
We pray these things in the name of The Living Water who births
in us abundant life. Amen.
-From the General Board of Church and Society
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