Mother's Day

INTRO.- Today we are here to worship the Lord and honor our mothers. Not only are we commanded to honor our mothers; it’s also the sensible and loving thing to do. Many of us here today wish we still had our mothers living so we could honor them, remember them and love them.

ILL.- A six-year-old boy, separated from his mother in a supermarket, began to call frantically for “Martha! Martha! Martha!”

That was his mother’s name and she came running to him quickly. “But, honey,” she admonished, “you shouldn’t call me ‘Martha’, I’m ‘Mother’ to you.” “Yes, I know,” he answered, “but this store is full of mothers.”

Our world is full of mothers, but we have only one mother who is special. Should be. Must always be. There is no one like our mothers. And no one can take the place of our mothers.

ILL.- Someone wrote: You’ve Turned Into A Mom When:

- You automatically double-knot everything you tie.

- You find yourself humming the Barney song as you do the dishes.

- You hear a baby cry in the grocery store, and you start to gently sway back and forth, back and forth. However, your children are either at school or long gone!

- You actually start to like the smell of strained carrots mixed with applesauce.

- You spend a half hour searching for your sunglasses only to have your teenager say, "Mom, why don’t you wear the ones you pushed up on your head?"

- You are out for a nice romantic meal with your husband, enjoying some real adult conversation, when suddenly you realize that you’ve reached over and started to cut up his steak!

Things Our Mothers Taught Us

- My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.

"If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."

- My mother taught me about RELIGION.

"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

- My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.

"If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of next week!"

- My mother taught me LOGIC.

"Because I said so, that’s why."

- My mother taught me FORESIGHT.

"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident."

- My mother taught me IRONY.

"Keep crying, and I’ll give you something to cry about."

- My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.

"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."

- My mother taught me about STAMINA.

"You’ll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

- My mother taught me about WEATHER.

"This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."

- My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.

"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."

- My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.

"Stop acting like your father!"

- My mother taught me about ENVY.

"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don’t have wonderful parents like you do."

- My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.

"Just wait until we get home"

- My mother taught me about RECEIVING.

"You are going to get it when you get home!"

- My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.

"If you don’t stop crossing your eyes, the wind will change and you will stay like that."

- My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.

"If you don’t eat your vegetables, you’ll never grow up."

- My mother taught me GENETICS.

"You act just like your father."

- My mother taught me about my ROOTS.

"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"

- My mother taught me WISDOM.

"When you get to be my age, you’ll understand."

- My mother taught me about JUSTICE.

"One day you’ll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!"

On Mother’s Day we can’t say enough good things about our mothers, but we’ll try. And God help us if we don’t!

PROP.- I want to share briefly three thoughts:

1- Her hands work

2- Her mouth speaks

3- Her heart loves

I. HER HANDS WORK

ILL.- A boy got his first job. As he was boasting about the amount of work he did, he said, "I get up at 5 a.m. and have my breakfast." He was asked, "Does anyone else get up too?" He replied, "Oh yes, mother gets up and fixes my breakfast and then fixes dad’s breakfast."

"And what about your dinner?" The boy said, "Oh, mother, fixes that too."

"Does your mother have the afternoon to herself?" The boy replied, "No, mama cleans the house, looks after the other children, and then gets supper for me and dad when we come home. Then we watch TV before we go to bed."