Happy Mother’s Day. Today, on Sacred Sunday, we give our profound thanks to Anna Jarvis, the founder of Mother’s Day, who was born in 1864 in West Virginia– about 350 miles north of Greensboro.

Moms, if your favorite Greensboro home improvement store is out of paint sticks, it just could be because the youth of Centenary United Methodist Church used them for the good cause of making crosses with prayers and statements of faith on them. The crosses were part of a 30-hour famine event to remember those worldwide who died from starvation. Each paint-stick cross had a unique saying…Dream, Live, Love… Love, Peace…God is Good….30 Hour famine…Pray for Haiti. 

Lots of food for thought was evident on the overcast afternoon when we walked through these rows of crosses. It was as if the starved souls were talking. These inspiring statements of faith were found at the corner of Friendly and Ridgeway Avenues.