I Hurt Too Much to Attend Church Until Wonderful Friends Gave Me Strength

Mother’s Day does not have to hurt

Photo by Joshua Eckstein on Unsplash.

Every year, I struggled during the worship service. I felt alienated, stranded on an island of sentimentality, awash with emotion.

I wondered what on earth I was doing there. Some years I couldn’t take it, and I stayed away from Church. To be childless and…