Most of us learned how to pray by watching our mothers do it first — on their knees, in the early morning, sometimes in tears, always in faith. On Mother's Day at The L.I.V.E. Church, Mother Veronica Washington and Mother Janette took the floor and reminded us that a mother's words and a mother's prayers are not separate things — they are the same force working in two directions.
Mother Washington grounded it in Proverbs 12, teaching that a mother's tongue reflects the character of God: love, patience, kindness, self-control — fruit she said she's still growing in herself at this stage of life.
Mother Janette anchored her word in Mark 1:35, the image of Jesus rising before dawn to find a solitary place to pray, and declared that a praying mother operates the same way — not by what she can do with her hands, but by what she places in the hands of an almighty God.
Together they preached one sermon: the words a mother speaks and the prayers she prays become a covering that follows her children long after she's left the room.