Mother’s Day: Creating Joyful Motherhood

Once again it is Mother's Day. It's a nostalgic moment for me, as it is for most of us. My earliest memories of Mother's Day go back to our little white Cape Cod home in Arlington, Massachusetts, surrounded by the white picket fence. In those days, it was the custom, at least in New England, that on Mother's Day you wore a flower. It was a token of respect to your mother. A white carnation in her memory if she was dead, a red carnation to celebrate her presence if she was living. I'm sort of sorry that custom has gone out of style.

Like a Seed (an object lesson using a packet of seeds)

Jesus said that if we had faith as great as a mustard seed -- and that's a tiny seed -- God could use us in a wonderful way. This children's sermon invites kids to thank god for what he is doing in their lives as he grows them up to serve him in special and exciting ways.