Mothering Sunday

by Nick Jowett (Tune: Quem Pastores)

1. Lord, we thank you for our mothers,

   for our sisters and our brothers,

   fathers, children and all others

   who make up the family.

2. Father, thank you for all carers,

   those who strive to be the sharers

   of all burdens, and the bearers

   of your love in family.

3. Lord, we know when love is dying,

   parents hear their children sighing;

   let them never cease from trying

   to find peace in family.

4. Father, Mother, ground of being,

   you sustain beyond our seeing,

   still in Christ our brother freeing

   us to be your family.

5. Lord, we thank you for all mothers,

   for all nephews, aunties, brothers,

   nannies, neighbours, grandads, others

   who build up the family.

Revd Nick Jowett is Vicar of St Andrew's, Psalter Lane, Sheffield and Diocesan Ecumenical Officer.