In a recent Paste article titled The Nature of Mother, Brian Howe undertakes a decent discussion of the rolls moms play in the lyrics of rock and rap songs, offering up this insight:
"Mothers: They’re always reservoirs for ineffable longing. We talk about mothers as a means of indirectly talking about ourselves, our hopes, our fears, our insecurities and dreams, which seems to give our actual mothers short shrift. But as Smog implies in 'I Feel Like The Mother Of The World,' motherhood is a foundational concept from which everything else descends, and the urge to approach such an awesome concept in the abstract is understandable."
In his essay, "Mothers--Don't Give up," Pastor Randy Nabors shares this:
"Many of our moms put up with a lot of grief and disappointment, and yet they kept on loving us and kept taking us back in. In this they reflected the character of God and his ability to forgive and not treat us as our sins deserve....I want to say to all mothers, whatever the difficulties you face or the blessings you enjoy, God has called you to a noble task."
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