2020.05.10 | Spiritual Adulting
Spiritual Adulting
Today, we celebrate the Festival of the Christian Home in the United Church of Christ, and we celebrate Mother’s Day in our churches and in our homes, all across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Nicaragua, Australia, New Zealand, India, China, Japan, the Philippines and South Africa.
This is an occasion when people pause to reflect on the importance of nurture and those who nurture us in our families of origins and our childhood homes and current homes. Increasingly, as an occasion to recognize, honor, and express appreciation to those in our families of origin (or our families of choice) as “Other Mothers” and “Community Mothers.”
In that spirit, I want to give a shout out to my mother, and mother-in-law, and to all the other mothers, grandmothers, and other mothers in our congregation and viewing audience today.
I’m Andrea’s other mother, or Tia of Choice.
She’s the one who gave me the idea for the title of my message today, “Spiritual Adulting.” She contributed the word “Adulting.” I contributed the word Spiritual.