Mothers: be assured, you are made every bit in God’s image, and perhaps even more so than us who mirror only the fatherhood of God. God is love, the Gospel says, and mothers are the highest created implementation of that love. You reflect the motherhood of God. It is fitting that on Mothers’ Day we reflect on the social application of motherhood – peace. Mothers’ Day, contrary to popular wisdom, was not invented by the Florists’ Association; nor by the telephone company. Mothers’ Day was invented by a mother protesting the killing of World War I. She got other mothers to protest, too, and pretty soon Congress got in the act. Finally, President Woodrow Wilson pronounced the second Sunday in May as Mothers’ Day, a day dedicated not to honoring mothers, but to honoring their wishes – that the killing be stopped. This aspect of Mothers’ Day is too often ignored, even by the church. It should not be. It is central to the whole idea of motherhood, including the motherhood of God.