I work in a furniture store. This past weekend we were giving mothers flowers in celebration of Mother’s Day. I am sure our approach would make Anna Jarvis spin in her grave, as Khaled Hamid pointed out in his post.

Our sales team discussed how we might present these flowers. The question was asked: “How do we know who is a mother?”

My first thought was “every woman is a mother“, so naturally every female customer should get a flower.

But the consensus of the sales team was that a mother is someone who has children and therefore we needed to delicately determine what female customers were eligible for our flowers.

While the sales team defined mothers as those women with children, I saw a larger vision of motherhood as informed by my faith. Maybe a vision that goes beyond the definition as presented by the founder of Mother’s Day. And one that escaped a customer in my store who…