The answers to these questions were 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.

Why did God give you your mother and not some other mom?

1. We’re related.
2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people’s moms like me.

What kind of little girl was your mom?
1. My Mom has always been my mom and none of that other stuff.
2. I don’t know because I wasn’t there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.

What would it take to make your mom perfect?
1. On the inside she’s already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.
2. Diet. You know, her hair. I’d diet, maybe blue.

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.

Most of us learn what love is in the family setting. We see God’s love reflected in our homes. It is shown to us even when we don’t deserve it. Mothers are a primary example of this. They teach us to love because they have experienced God’s love in their lives. We love because He first loved us.

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. [1 John 4:9-10]

This is the heart of the matter. Christian mothers teach us about the love of God that became one of us, that took on human flesh in order to take our place in punishment, to be the sacrifice to pay for your sins and my sins and the sins of all people. That is how God showed us His love. That is how we obtain forgiveness. That is why we know that we are forgiven. It is all about Jesus and what He has done for us. Christian Mothers tell and show and explain who He is and what He has done for us all.

Sometimes on Mother’s Day some of what is said and written tends to venerate and elevate Mother’s above the level of sainthood. To be sure, Christian Mothers are a tremendous blessing, and we should thank God for them all. But Christian mothers are still sinners, sinners for whom Christ died. They know that. And they rejoice in the forgiveness Jesus gives through His death and resurrection. The greatest value of a Christian mother is that she points you to the one you all need – our Savior, Jesus Christ.