Our celebration of Mother’s Day is a focus on a more feminine character trait of Jesus – namely, compassion. The story of Jesus feeding the 5000 demonstrates that we show compassion for others by remembering to “catch and release”. We “catch” those to whom we want to show compassion by entering into their struggle. Compassion literally means to “suffer with.” We feel their pain, we hold them in their time of need, we nurture, we love. But we are also to “release” them. We don’t serve others by continuing to coddle them. We are to equip them and release them to be strong and make good decisions.