Honoring Mothers Series

HONORING MOTHERS

INTRO: WHY GOD MADE MOMS:

Answers given by 2nd grade school children:

Why did God make mothers?

1. She’s the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.

2. Mostly to clean the house.

3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?

1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.

2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.

3. God made my Mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

What ingredients are mothers made of?

1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean.

2. They had to get their start from men’s bones. Then they mostly use string, I think.

What did mom need to know about dad before she married him?

1. His last name.

2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get drunk on beer?

3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores?

Who’s the boss at your house?

1. Mom doesn’t want to be boss, but she has to because dad’s such a goof ball.

2. Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.

3. I guess Mom is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.

If you could change one thing about your mom, what would it be?

1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I’d get rid of that.

2. I’d make my mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and not me.

3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back of her head.

KEY TEXT:

“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise: that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.” (Eph. 6:1-3).

PERSONAL TESTIMONY:

Today I want to honour my mother, for the great job she did as a single mom raising me and my three sisters. And I want to honour my wife Liza, the mother of my four children.

KINDERGARTEN ILLUSTRATION:

"All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned:

Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Take a nap every afternoon. Be aware of wonder.

Think what a better world it would be if we all -- the whole world -- had cookies and milk about 3 o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap… And it is still true, no matter how old you are -- when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together." (Robert Fulghum, All I really Need to Know I learned In Kindergarten).

• It’s a touching piece because it is so true. We all know that the early years of a child are so important. Our attitudes, our personalities, our habits – are shaped powerfully by what happens to us in the first years of early childhood.

CHALLENGE: While we especially honor mothers today, let us think of it as a planning day.

• How can we honor our mothers, grandmothers and mother-in-laws every day?

• How can we recognize their special contributions to our lives every day?

• Take a moment to write down three ways we can honor mothers.

• Make a commitment to honor them every day of the year because one day is not enough!

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