First Church Year #17: Mother’s Day
The first Sunday in May is the Sunday that we take to honor our mothers. When I finish this post, I will ask a typical question like I normally do. First, though, a rundown of how our new church recognized mothers.
Many of the youth and kids wrote short sentences about what their mothers meant to them. These were read in front of the entire congregation.
The youth then passed out bits of candy to all of the mothers. These included $100,000 bars and Hershey kisses.
The sermon was about Mary, Jesus’ mother and the Proverbs 31 woman.
Personally, I think there are two points of Christ’s life that typical how we should treat our mothers.
First is when Jesus asks the disciple, John, to take care of mary after His death. Jesus honored his mother by wanting her to be taken care of.
The other is when his family shows up for an intervention. He is told that His mother and brothers and sisters are there. He looks around at those in the house and states that these are his mother and brothers and sisters.
Basically, I think when we look at Christ’s life we learn that we should treasure our mothers. However, all of us who have accepted Him as Savior are in His family now. We should treasure Him above all other relationships.
Did your church do anything special to honor mothers yesterday?
We have in the past but since we are using another church’s facility we decided to forego that this year. I did have the kids come in and do a M-O-T-H-E-R skit. I also showed Stephen Curtis Chapman’s song on Mothers. I have trouble preaching on Pr.31, especially since I am not a woman.
Telling a woman how to be a woman seems sort of out of my league.
I also have trouble telling a woman what kind of wife she should be. That seems patristic.
The pastor had all the moms stand up and he prayed for us and thanked God for us. I also liked that he prayed for the want-to- be mom’s whose hearts might be breaking because they haven’t been able to have kids yet. I like that he reminded us that Mother’s Day is hard for many.
Eileen, there are a lot of Hannah’s out there that have a hard time on Mother’s Day.
Men made breakfast in the morning (and it was actually good!)
Church canceled at night.
That’s a good idea.
Yes, at my church the ushers handed each of the mothers a beautiful rose as they left the service. However, they didn’t give me one, which led me to wonder, “what is it about me that doesn’t say ‘mom’?”
My wife didn’t get the Hershey Kiss.
Our church gave away four 5-hour energy drinks each service to (1) the mom with the heaviest baby, (2) the mom with the shortest time span between two children, (3) the mom with the longest time between two children, and (4) the newest mom.
We used to do stuff like that when I was a kid until the youngest moms started being teens. They adjusted it after that. Not sure where the fine line was, but that was 25 years ago.