On this day when we honor and treasure mothers, we need to realize that we are more likely to put them on a pedestal than small kids who often have unusual views of their maternal parent. When asked “Why did God make moms?” one child responded, “She’s the only one who knows where the Scotch Tape is,” another said “Mostly to clean the house,” and a third said that she was put here “To help us out of there when we were getting born.”
As to the difficult question of how God made mothers a kid felt moms were not so special because “He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.” Another child said, “God made my mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.” About the ingredients, one youngster said, “God makes mothers out of clouds, and angel hair, and everything nice in the world, and one dab of mean.” Yet another kid, puzzled about the question, said: “They had to get their start from men’s bones. Then they mostly use string, I think.”
Kids were asked if there was anything they’d like to change about their moms, and what it would be. One said, “She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I’d get rid of that.” Another said, I’d make my mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and not me.” A third said, “I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back of her head.”
For all the confusion of our early years, we treasure moms in many ways and for their many special talents as this little poem shows so well:
It takes a mother’s love to make a house a home,
A place to be remembered, no matter where we roam.
It takes a mother’s patience to bring a child up right,
And her courage and her cheerfulness to make a dark day bright.
It take a mother’s thoughtfulness to mend the heart’s deep hurts,
And her skill and her endurance to mend out socks and shirts.
It take a mother’s kindness to forgive us when we err,
To sympathize in trouble, and to bow her head in prayer.
It takes a mother’s wisdom to recognize our needs,
And to give us reassurance by her loving words and deeds.
It takes a mother’s endless faith, her confidence and trust,
To guide us through the pitfalls of selfishness and lust.
And that is why in all this world, There could be no other,
Who could fulfill God’s purpose as completely as a mother.
We salute you today, Mothers, and may God bless you as you guide your children down life’s paths