Everyday is Mother's Day EP: Christian Songs of Tribute for Mom and Grandma

About Everyday is Mother's Day EP

The Mother's Day EP is a four-song collection of scripture-rooted tributes by Malachi Ben-David — honoring mothers and grandmothers from every angle a real family knows them. It is a Mother's Day gift built not on a single sentiment but on four true perspectives: the community honoring every mom and grandma, the mother's own hidden struggle, the husband's awe of his wife, and the hardest story of all — a grown child's grief and grace for a mother lost to addiction. If you're looking for a Christian Mother's Day song, a Mother's Day tribute, a song for mom, or a song for grandma rooted in the Word, this is an EP written for the full truth of motherhood — the celebrated and the unseen, the joyful and the broken.

Every song rests on the same biblical foundation — Proverbs 31, the mother God sees, honors, and calls blessed — and each one carries it into a distinct story and a distinct sound. Always There celebrates every mother and grandmother in warm CCM; Everyday Is Mother's Day speaks to the mother's own inner battle; Our Angel is a husband's tribute to his wife; and Rest in Peace Momma is a raw testimony rap about loving a mother through addiction and into redemption. Together they form a Mother's Day tribute honest enough to hold both the flowers and the tears — because real motherhood holds both. Its refrain never wavers: you are seen, you are honored, you are blessed.

Everyday Is Mother's Day Genre: Christian Music (CCM Ballad)

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About Everyday Is Mother's Day Everyday Is Mother's Day turns the camera around — from the family honoring the mother to the mother's own heart, in the quiet hours when the house is still and no one sees the weight she carries. It names the thing most Mother's Day songs skip: the guilt that whispers "did I give enough, did I get it right?" and answers it with grace. Built around Hannah pouring out her soul in the temple (1 Samuel 1) and Mary pondering all things in her heart (Luke 2:19), it assures the weary mother she is seen by the God who does not slumber. Built on 1 Samuel 1:10-20, Proverbs 31:25, 2 Corinthians 12:9, and Matthew 11:28, it's a CCM ballad of comfort for the mother herself: you are seen, you are held so near.

Key Scriptures: 1 Samuel 1:10-20 · Proverbs 31:25 · 2 Corinthians 12:9 · Matthew 11:28 · Luke 2:19

Lyrics for Everyday Is Mother's Day In the quiet hours when the house is still, You carry the weight no one else can feel. Names and needs, prayers whispered low, A heart that plans where only you know. Through sleepless nights and tears unseen, You rise again, steady and serene. Like Hannah in the temple, pouring out your soul, You trust the One who makes the broken whole.

Oh mother, you are seen, you are held so near, Clothed with strength and dignity, casting out all fear. When the days feel heavy and the load too great, Come to Him who waits. He gives rest, He compensates. Your love reflects the Father's own embrace, Tender as a mother's comfort in every hidden place. Today we honor you, with gratitude we say: Blessed are you, dear mother, in every way.

Guilt whispers softly in the still of night, "Did I give enough? Did I get it right?" Yet in your weakness, grace shines through, Power perfected when strength is through. Like Mary pondering all within her heart, You hold the joys, the sorrows, from the start. God sees your labor, every sacrifice, And calls your children blessed in paradise.

Oh mother, you are seen, you are held so near, Clothed with strength and dignity, casting out all fear. When the days feel heavy and the load too great, Come to Him who waits. He gives rest, He compensates. Your love reflects the Father's own embrace, Tender as a mother's comfort in every hidden place. Today we honor you, with gratitude we say: Blessed are you, dear mother, in every way.

For every tear in secret kept, For every burden silently borne, The Lord draws close. He has not slept. In His arms, your weary soul is reborn. He laughs at days to come with you, Promises hope that carries through.

Oh mother, you are seen, forever held so near, Clothed with strength and dignity, His presence ever clear. Rest now in the love that never fades away, God's own heart reflected in all you do and say. We rise to call you blessed, with voices raised in praise, Thank you for your faithful love through all your days.

Always There Genre: Christian Music (CCM)

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About Always There Always There is the warm, celebratory heart of the EP — a tribute to every mother and every grandmother, sung by the family gathered to honor them. It moves from the sleepless nights of raising children to the silver-haired wisdom of a grandmother's stories, holding three generations in a single embrace: "You taught us roots run deep and true, and family begins with love from you." Where other songs on the EP go inward or into hard places, Always There simply celebrates — the constant, steady sky of a mother's presence and the enduring light of a grandma's love. Built on Proverbs 31:28, 2 Timothy 1:5, and Psalm 103:17, it's a CCM tribute for the whole family to sing: through every season, you are our brightest, truest star.

Key Scriptures: Proverbs 31:28 · 2 Timothy 1:5 · Deuteronomy 6:6-9 · Psalm 103:17

Lyrics for Always There Through sleepless nights and tender days, You held us close in countless ways. Your hands would mend what life would break, With love too deep for words to say. From first steps to the years gone by, You've been our constant, steady sky.

To every mother, every grandma near, Whose quiet strength dispels our fear— Thank you for the light you give each day, For the love that never fades away. Through every season, bloom or fall, You remain our heart's forever call.

Grandma's stories wrapped in silver hair, Wisdom carried through the air. Cookies baked and lessons kind, Gentle hearts and brilliant minds. You taught us roots run deep and true, And family begins with love from you.

To every mother, every grandma near, Whose quiet strength dispels our fear— Thank you for the light you give each day, For the love that never fades away. Through every season, bloom or fall, You remain our heart's forever call.

For every tear you dried in silence, For every dream you helped take flight, For prayers you whispered in the darkness, You are our morning and our night. Generations rise because you stand, With open arms and steady hands.

To mothers cherished, grandmas adored, The ones who give and ask for nothing more— May this day wrap you in the love you've sown, And bring you joy you've always shown. Through every season, near or far, You are our brightest, truest star.

Through every season… you are our star.

Rest in Peace Momma Genre: Testimony Rap

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About Rest in Peace Momma Rest in Peace Momma is the EP's rawest and most necessary song — a testimony rap about loving a mother through addiction, from a child's first memory at five years old to her quiet redemption in her final months. It refuses to sanitize the story: the manipulation, the theft, the grief-while-she-breathed are all named honestly. But so is the grace — "you got right with God in quiet, let the knocking turn to peace" — and the hope of a heaven reunion where she is finally whole. For the adult child of an addict who has sat through Mother's Day feeling the gap between the celebration and their own story, this song says the hard thing out loud and still lands on love. Built on Psalm 34:18, Luke 15, 2 Corinthians 5:17, and Revelation 21:4, it's a testimony of complicated love and unshakeable hope: still I loved you, and I'll see you whole.

Key Scriptures: Psalm 34:18 · Luke 15:11-32 · 2 Corinthians 5:17 · Revelation 21:4 · Romans 8:38-39

Lyrics for Rest in Peace Momma I was five years old, small hands in yours so tight, You were my whole world, my shield against the night. Daddy poured the poison, lit the fuse so slow, Watched it burn your spirit, watched the real you go. Headaches every morning, doctors wrote the script, Pills became your lifeline, government-funded grip. I believed the stories, called them migraines too, Never saw the monster hiding deep in you.

Yet I loved you through the wreckage, through the screams and shattered glass, Through the nights you disappeared, through the years that wouldn't last. Drugs carved out your soul, left a hollow shell behind, Stole my mother piece by piece, left the pain for me to find. Still I loved you, fierce and broken, holding on with bleeding hands, Even as the person I needed slipped like shifting sands.

Ten years old and watching, saw the cracks begin to show, Your mind would drift and wander, places only you could go. One day soft and tender, next day rage and spite, Threats to end it all, to vanish in the night. You'd manipulate with tears, pull us close then push away, Say you'd leave this world if we didn't beg you stay. Stole from every pocket, every promise, every dream, Yet your pride in me shone through the chaos like a beam.

You tried to give what little scraps of love remained, A dollar for my birthday, a word to ease the pain. But I craved the mother, not the handouts or the show, Wanted arms that held me steady, not the one who'd let me go. Lies piled on like shadows, trust eroded day by day, I learned to love from distance, kept the real you locked away. Mourned you while you breathed, buried what was lost at five, Grieved the ghost beside me, barely stayed alive.

Yet I loved you through the silence, through the thefts that cut so deep, Through the doctors who enabled, through the secrets that we'd keep. Addiction was the thief that robbed us of our years, Left my children without grandma, left me drowning in my tears. Still I loved you, unextinguished, even when the fire died, Clung to every fading echo of the woman once inside.

Final months you reached out, fragile, cracked, and worn, Tried to own the damage, though the words felt torn. Admitted pieces of the hell you put us through, Voice so small and broken, barely breaking through. I visited in silence, guarded heart in place, Saw the Holy Spirit knocking, saw the light upon your face. You told me you were dying, cried those words a thousand times before, But this time something shifted, opened up the door. You got right with God in quiet, let the knocking turn to peace, Freed yourself from chains that never offered true release.

And I loved you through the ending, through the pain that wouldn't cease, Through the loss that echoed louder in the spaces of my peace. Drugs may have stolen everything, but they couldn't claim your soul, The Spirit held the fragments till redemption made you whole.

Those glimpses of the you I knew, I saw before you passed, Give me hope that that's the person I'll see in heaven when it's my time at last. No more pain, no more chains, no more nights of endless fight, Just the mother pure and whole, stepping into light. I'll run into your arms, the way I dreamed when I was small, And we'll finally be together—whole, forgiven, after all.

Our Angel Genre: Christian Music (CCM / Christian Country)

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About Our Angel Our Angel is the perspective most Mother's Day songs never take — the husband's. It hands the microphone to the man who has watched his wife carry the family from the inside, through the ordinary days, and has something to say about what he's seen: "I see the quiet battles no one else understands." From awe to vow to blessing, the song honors the wife as both a partner and a mother, and identifies her tender care of the children with the Father's own tenderness — "in your care, I glimpse a Father's tender form." Built on Proverbs 31:10-31, Ephesians 5:25-33, Isaiah 40:29-31, and Isaiah 66:13, it's a husband's tribute to his wife: you are cherished, irreplaceable, uniquely meek.

Key Scriptures: Proverbs 31:10-31 · Ephesians 5:25-33 · Isaiah 40:29-31 · Isaiah 66:13

Lyrics for Our Angel Every morning you greet the dawn before the light, Juggling dreams and duties through the endless night. You map the paths we travel, hold the threads that bind, Carrying tomorrow's worries so the rest can find Peace within these walls you've built with patient hands. I see the quiet battles no one else understands— The weight of every question, every fear you face alone, Yet you rise with grace that only heaven has known.

My love, my partner, mother of our days, I stand in awe of all your steadfast ways. When weariness would claim you, come and lean on me, For in your gentle arms I find eternity. The Lord who sees your labor, who upholds the frail, Pours His strength into the places where you fail. Today and always, know this truth I speak: You are cherished, irreplaceable, uniquely meek.

There are moments doubt creeps in like evening shade, Whispering you've stumbled, that your efforts fade. But every tender word, each sacrifice you make, Plants seeds of love that time itself cannot forsake. You've lost a piece of self to give our children more, Yet in that giving, you've become so much, so sure. I watch you comfort, guide, and hold them through the storm, And in your care, I glimpse a Father's tender form.

My love, my partner, mother of our days, I stand in awe of all your steadfast ways. When weariness would claim you, come and lean on me, For in your gentle arms I find eternity. The Lord who sees your labor, who upholds the frail, Pours His strength into the places where you fail. Today and always, know this truth I speak: You are cherished, irreplaceable, uniquely meek.

So rest, my dearest, in the promise He extends— He gathers close the weary, calls you His own friend. Your quiet faithfulness outshines the brightest star; Our home, our hearts, are safer because of who you are.

My love, my partner, mother of our days, Forever grateful for your endless, selfless ways. When burdens press, remember this I vow: I'll walk beside you, honoring you now. The One who formed the heavens lifts you high, In His embrace, your spirit never dies. Happy Mother's Day, my heart—my truest gift: You are loved beyond all measure, in every shift.

Biblical Background

The Mother's Day EP is built on the Bible's honest and honoring vision of motherhood — celebrated, unseen, and even broken — gathered under the enduring portrait of Proverbs 31. Its shared foundation is Proverbs 31:10-31, the noble woman whose worth is far above rubies and whose "children arise up, and call her blessed" (Proverbs 31:28), with Proverbs 31:25's "strength and dignity" echoing across the collection. Each song then carries that foundation into its own scriptural territory.

Always There rests on Proverbs 31:28, the generational faith of 2 Timothy 1:5 (Lois and Eunice), Deuteronomy 6:6-9 (teaching the next generation), and Psalm 103:17 (God's righteousness to children's children). Everyday Is Mother's Day draws on 1 Samuel 1:10-20 (Hannah pouring out her soul), Luke 2:19 (Mary pondering in her heart), 2 Corinthians 12:9 (strength perfected in weakness), Matthew 11:28 (come unto Me and rest), and Psalm 121:3-4 (He who keeps you does not slumber). Our Angel rests on Proverbs 31:10-31, Ephesians 5:25-33 (husbands love your wives), Isaiah 40:29-31 (strength to the weary), and Isaiah 66:13 (as a mother comforts). Rest in Peace Momma draws on Psalm 34:18 (near the brokenhearted), Luke 15:11-32 (the prodigal returning), 2 Corinthians 5:17 (a new creation), Revelation 21:4 (no more tears or pain), and Romans 8:38-39 (nothing separates us from God's love). Every reference is listed below in KJV, in EP order.

Standalone Scripture List

Proverbs 31:10-31 Proverbs 31:25 Proverbs 31:28 2 Timothy 1:5 Deuteronomy 6:6-9 Psalm 103:17 1 Samuel 1:10-20 Luke 2:19 2 Corinthians 12:9 Matthew 11:28 Psalm 121:3-4 Ephesians 5:25-33 Isaiah 40:29-31 Isaiah 66:13 Psalm 34:18 Luke 15:11-32 2 Corinthians 5:17 Revelation 21:4 Romans 8:38-39

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Mother's Day EP? It is a four-song collection of scripture-rooted Mother's Day tributes by Malachi Ben-David — Always There (CCM), Everyday Is Mother's Day (CCM ballad), Our Angel (CCM/Christian country), and Rest in Peace Momma (testimony rap) — honoring mothers and grandmothers from four different perspectives.

What songs are on the EP? Four: Always There (the family celebrating every mom and grandma), Everyday Is Mother's Day (the mother's own hidden struggle, answered with grace), Our Angel (a husband's tribute to his wife), and Rest in Peace Momma (a grown child's testimony of loving a mother through addiction into redemption).

Why does the EP include a song as heavy as Rest in Peace Momma? Because real motherhood includes hard stories, and Mother's Day is painful for many people. Rest in Peace Momma gives voice to the adult child of an addict — the grief, the complicated love, and the hope of redemption — so that no one is left out of the celebration. It balances the EP's tributes with unflinching honesty and lands, like the rest, on grace.

Is there a song for grandmothers on the EP? Yes. Always There specifically honors grandmothers alongside mothers — "Grandma's stories wrapped in silver hair, wisdom carried through the air" — celebrating the faith passed down through generations, echoing 2 Timothy 1:5 (the faith of Lois and Eunice) and Psalm 103:17.

What scriptures is the EP based on? Its shared foundation is Proverbs 31, with each song drawing on its own passages: 2 Timothy 1:5 and Psalm 103:17 (Always There), 1 Samuel 1 and Luke 2:19 (Everyday Is Mother's Day), Ephesians 5 and Isaiah 66:13 (Our Angel), and Luke 15 with Revelation 21:4 (Rest in Peace Momma) — all in the King James Version (KJV).

Where can I listen to the Mother's Day EP? Stream it on Spotify, Apple Music, and Audiomack, and follow Malachi Ben-David on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and TikTok. The EP is also available on Facebook, Instagram, & Threads Music Library and TikTok Sound.

Available on Facebook, Instagram, & Threads Music Library and TikTok Sound