Mental Health: Written by: Caleb Thomas, M.A. LMHC ARE WE LOSING OUR MOTHERLY ROLE MODELS? Happy May to our Urban Experience Readers! Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mothers! This is one of my favorite months of the year to celebrate mothers everywhere. I dedicate this article to my Amazing mom Marilyn Ann Taylor and all she did to raise me and my brother as a single mom and who celebrated 85 years of life in March. I like to see Mother’s Day in a positive light as if not for mothers none of us would be here. We recognize mothers here in the USA and I personally see mothers as a child’s first role model. Why, if you are a mother then you know from the start what that means, your role as immediate provider, first teacher and first relationship builder. Mothers show strength and resiliency. A child looks to a mother for direction. So, I want to highlight Motherly Role Models and what that looks like. From a godly perspective what does a “Motherly Role model look like? We get a glance of this role in Titus 2:3-5. Titus 2:3-5 tells us “the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things, they admonish the young women to love their husbands to love their children to be discreet, chaste-abstaining from sexual intercourse outside of marriage, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands that the word of God may not be blasphemed”. Ask yourself, do you agree with this scripture? Now in today’s age some may disagree with being a homemaker, but I think it’s awesome and I commend the homemakers both male and female. Unfortunately, we have gotten away from the older admonishing the younger and the younger respecting the older. My oh my how times have changed! I know there are some good mothers out there still setting the example and being great leaders. For this Mother’s Day I want to give honor and encouragement to those Motherly role models. Never give up. We may live in the 21st Century, things have changed, some things more drastically than others. Some things for the better and some things have gotten worse. For example, a young girl coming into puberty was something very special to behold. To become a young lady, today it seems common for young girls just hitting puberty to lose their virginity, we have increased teen pregnancies which translates into children having children. Not to be too daunting, we need true motherly role models, especially in a world that thinks it is ok, and her body is her own. This new world age of thinking is wrong. In the Song of Solomon 2:7 he
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