Have some of us, I wonder, been worshipping a God who is too distant? Or a God who has not been understood or experienced as heavenly parent? Then on this Mothering Sunday, when we celebrate all those fine and lovely things that our creator has placed within us, realise for the first time, or for the 100th time, that you are a loved child of a heavenly parent, and choose anew and afresh to love God, in word and deed.