This Sunday will be Mother's Day. It has been done now for over 100 years. It started in 1908. A woman named Anna Jarvis who loved her mother greatly made a request to her pastor that they have a special service to honor all the mothers in the congregation. So on May 10, 1908 that is what they did.
Somehow that special day seemed to catch on. So in 1914 on May 9 President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the second Sunday in May every year as Mother's Day. He said it should be a time of public expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of our nation.
Of course honoring our mothers goes back even further to when God commanded His people from Mount Sinai to, "Honor your father and your mother, that your days maybe prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you" (Exodus 20:12). The word honor implies obedience and submission to our parents. As children we are to obey them and as adults we are to respect them. Paul reminded the church at Ephesus of that command in Ephesians 6:1-3 and so it certainly applies to us today.
A cartoon in the Saturday Evening Post showed a young boy about five or six years old talking on the phone, saying, "Mother is in the hospital, the twins and Roxie and Billie and Sally and the dog and me and Dad are all home alone."
Mothers add so much to a home. When they are not around we can be lonely. They are indeed special people. Special people deserve a special day. Be sure to honor your mother this week and remember that God loves you and so does First Baptist Church.