A Heritage of Love (John 14:15-21)

On Mother's Day, Pastor LyAnna Johnson pairs Jesus's farewell words to his disciples in John 14 with the surprising true origin of Mother's Day, a story that runs through abolitionist Julia Ward Howe and Civil War era organizer Ann Reeves Jarvis, not greeting cards. Both threads land on the same point: love isn't a feeling we keep in dreams, but something practiced in the hard, often unglamorous work of caring for one another. It's a reminder that the command to love God and love each other is simple to say and genuinely difficult to live, and that doing it anyway is the heritage we're meant to carry forward.