What Does It Really Mean To Honor Your Mother

Mother’s Day isn’t just a date on the calendar, it’s a mirror. It shows us who loved us well, who we’ve appreciated, and who we’ve taken for granted. I’m sending a sincere Happy Mother’s Day to good mothers around the world and to every person who has carried a mothering role, including adoptive moms, stepmoms, spiritual mothers, and even dads who had to become “mom” when life changed.

I also make something plain: this message is for the good mothers, the ones who raised children to be decent human beings, who provided, taught, and loved with consistency. I share my own grief and gratitude for my mother who has passed, and I dedicate this moment to the women who mothered me with care. If you’ve ever wished you could say “thank you” one more time, you’ll feel the honesty in this reflection.

Then we get direct about family respect and responsibility. If you’re living at home and refusing to help, if you’re disrespectful, if you think your words and actions don’t matter, I challenge that mindset. I talk about the faith-based principle of sowing and reaping, and why mistreating parents, especially vulnerable parents dealing with dementia, is never hidden and never harmless. Love is not only gifts, it’s patience, support, and honor in everyday life.

If this resonates, listen through, share it with someone who needs a reset, and subscribe for more honest encouragement. After you listen, will you reach out to a mother figure today and tell them what they meant to you?

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Mother’s Day Welcome

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Hello and welcome to another episode of very special episode of Regina Sworn audio series presents Happy Mother's Day. And I'm going to say Happy Mother's Day around the world. I'll go ahead and say that. Although in some countries this might not be your Mother Day, but I'm going to go ahead and say Happy Mother's Day to the mothers, the good mothers around the world. Now I know a lot of people may not have natural born children. It may not be your blood kids or but you could be their adopted mom. Or even some dads can go for moms as well. I want to say happy Mother's Day to you. My beloved mother is uh gone to be with the Lord. She passed away uh five years ago, roughly almost six years now. She was a beautiful, beautiful mother. She was a great mom. She was a wonderful, wonderful mom. I I can't say any more than that itself. I just remember her teaching us about the Lord and providing for us along with my dad. I had a good mom and dad. I cannot complain. They were great, great parents. Because when I talk of one, I have to talk of the other. When I talk about my mother, I have to talk about my dad. But today it is Mother's Day, so I don't say happy Mother's Day again to all the great and wonderful mothers around the world. And again, you may be a dad that's having to play the role of a mom because maybe you're you're not with your wife, maybe she passed away, or and you might the kids might be in your you know under your care. So happy Mother's Day. If you are a mother of animals, you're a cat mother, and what I mean by that, if you I know a lady, she has no kids, but she got a herd of animals, and she's they call her the mother, animal mother. I want to wish her a happy mother's day today. She knows who she is, and there's a lot of people out there that don't do not have kids, but um they have beautiful animals, and you take care of those animals. Happy Mother's Day to you. Happy Mother's Day to you if you again are an adopted mom, if you are have adopted children, you're a stepmom. Happy Mother's Day to you. I am highly aware that every mother is not a good mother. Every mom is not a good mom. There are lots of bad, bad moms out there. This podcast is not for you. I want the kids right now to know this that if your mom was a bad mother, she treated you wrong, she disrespected you, um bad things, she just didn't have a good relationship. Well, guess what? I'm not talking about a mother like that. I'm this this podcast goes out to those mothers who were really beautiful, beautiful moms. Beautiful moms. That's what this podcast is for. That's who this podcast is for. And I have to say I had beautiful women in my life who acted as mother. And again, uh there some of them have passed away. Um one of them is still alive, and I'm just she did my prayers, but the rest has passed away again. My natural mom, you know, passed back in 2020. If you are a child and you got a good mother, and you are taking advantage of that good mother by disrespecting her, by not working, living there, not help, sharing in the responsibilities, because I feel like if you're gonna stay with your parents, you should be contributing something. If you are a child who's still at home, you should definitely be doing something to help contribute to the load that your parents, your mom, your dad, the load that they're under, because that's not easy to be a mother or a father and then have a child to not carry his load. So if you are a child out there and you're very disrespectful to your mother, to your parents, shame on you. Because I'm gonna tell you, you're going to reap that. That's gonna come back on you. If you got good mother, good dad, and you're taking advantage of that, you're disrespecting them, you're talking back to them, you don't want to do anything, you want to lay around and eat up all the food and and and lay around and help pay no bills and do none of that stuff. Hey, guess what? All that stuff comes back on you. I speak of a child who was very respectful of my parents, of my mom, my sister Lori and I. We loved our mom, we respected her, we respected them. And if you respect your parents, you respect your mother, the Lord will look out for you. It's a blessing to love your parents, it's a blessing to honor your mother and honor your father, it's a blessing to do that. So if you're one of those kids out there who are disrespecting your mother, talking back, some in some cases they're fighting their mom, hitting their mom, laying hands on their mom. Oh my god, you are going to reap. And when that comes back on you, you're gonna think about it. You know, people do things sometimes, they think, well, that happened years and years ago. But when you do bad things, when bad things start to happen to you, you think about that. Those things come back. So if you are a child who's disrespecting your parents, your mother, your father, being rude to your mom, laying hands on your mom, guess what? That stuff will come back on you years later, one way or the other. Because one thing about this life, what you sow, you're going to reap. What you plant is going to come up again. But if you're one of those kids who got a great mom and you you're flourishing and and and and showing her all the love and that you can. If you're a husband out there and you got a good wife and she's a good mother to your kids, love on her, not just today. Not just today. Some people pick Valentine's Day to show love to their significant others or show love to people on Mother's Day or Father's Day. Show love to these individuals throughout the year. And then on Mother's Day and Valentine's Day and Father's Day, you don't have to try to go and buy all these gifts on one day. Do it often. Do things often, do good things often. And it'll make you feel good. It makes me feel good. Although my my natural mother gone on to be with the Lord, although my spiritual mother, mother, prophetess mother A. Although my other mom uh died a few years ago, they're going to be with the Lord, but at least I can hold my head up really high and say, I love them with all of my heart. So I don't have anything to be ashamed of. A lot of people, they love you when you're dead. Some people are rude to their parents. Some parents got dementia. And some of the kids are so mean to those parents. They talk to them like a dog. Like a dog. I I take that back not like a dog because some people talk to their dog very nicely. If you got a parent or mom who has dementia and you are mean to her, okay, maybe I can't see that. Maybe the public can't see that, that you're mistreating them, but guess what? There's a god that sits high and low and he sees everything, his eyes on the sparrow and he's watching. And again, everything that you plant, everything that you sow is coming up again. So if you got a parent who has dementia, you better watch your step the way you treat them, because it is definitely gonna come back on you if you are mistreating them. You know, I I know of a story and I'm not gonna talk about this, but this lady was a good mom, a good mom to her kids. And she lived with a relative, I should say, and the relative wasn't so nice. Not so nice. Not at all. And um I'll just put it this way if you sow something that's coming back up, I don't care how you change, how better you get in your life, you you're doing good, you're flourishing, things are going good now, whatever you did that was bad and that was wrong, it's gonna come back up on you. It's coming back. Because why you did it, you planted it. It was a seed that you planted. That seed will come back up on you. And when it comes back, it's gonna be at a time you least expect it and you're not gonna like it very much. So love on your mother. Love your mom, love your parents if they are good parents. Again, every parent is not good parents, but what if you got a a stepmom who's a good stepmom? Love on them. Again, I'm gonna say this again. There all moms are not good mothers out there. There are so many horrible moms who treat their kids like dirt more than dirt, like trash. This podcast is not for those mothers. This is for those moms who are good mothers who raised you to be a decent human being and to love others and to do the best you can do. This podcast is for those good mothers. And if you're a good mother out there today, or if you're a dad who's happened to act as a mom, happy mother's day around the world. Happy Mother's Day. I just wanted to come before you with the little words of encouragement, not very much today. I was gonna have different guests on the panel, but I decided to just come from a place within because my mother was a beautiful, wonderful woman. She was a wonderful mother. And this podcast is dedicated to her, my spiritual mother, Prophetess Mother A. B. Jackson, whom I miss. Oh my god, I miss her so much. And it's also dedicated to my sister Laura, who she was she acted like a mom to me, believe it or not. She Laura was like my mom. I know a lot of people think this is crazy, but she looked after me, she really did. She looked after me, and I looked after her. So whoever is acting as mom today in your life, if it's your natural mother, if it's your stepmom, if it's your adopted mom, show them love, not just this day, but every day, and God would bless you. Happy Mother's Day to all the moms again. Hope you're doing something really wonderful. But remember, not just this day, show love to your mother every day. Hi Regina Swan, thank you so much for listening. Write to me at Soren Regina at gmail dot com. Visit my official website at Regina Swaren.com w dot Regina Sworn.com. Thanks for listening. Happy Mother's Day