Mothers day ideas - Appreciate Mothers

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We must never underestimate the role that our mothers
play in teaching us about God, about His Word, and about
salvation. From a very early age, a mother is preparing us
for life. Teaching us about our Creator and Redeemer is
part of God’s purpose for mothers, and we must appreciate
the godly mothers and honor them for taking up the
challenge of preparing us for life.

Resources
You’ll need one set of these for every three youth:
• Pair of clean (not smelly) socks
• Hard boiled egg
• Plastic cup

OR
• A set of puzzle pieces from a small puzzle or cut
out from a postcard or magazine and
• a blindfold for each group.

What to do (Option 1)
1. Divide the youth into groups of three.
2. Give each group a pair of socks, one hard boiled
egg, and a small cup.
3. One person in each group must wear the pair of
socks, one over each hand.
4. Place the hard boiled egg in the cup and then
place the cup is in the sock-covered hands.

5. Give the following instructions:
“The person with the socks is a friend who has come
to you with a problem. He or she needs to peel the
hard boiled egg so that no shell remains on it and
place all the shells in the cup. Your friend may not
remove the socks from his or her hands.

Discuss the problem briefly then take action and help
your friend. When your group finishes, remain where
you are and quietly observe the other groups still
working a their task. No other instructions will be
given. Go!”

What to do (Option 2)
1. Divide the youth into groups of three.
2. Blindfold one member of each group. This blindfolded
youth can talk and use his or her hands.
3. Assign another youth in each group who can ONLY talk.
4. The third youth in each group can use hands, but he or
she CANNOT talk, and CANNOT touch the puzzle
pieces.

5. Give the following instructions:
“The objective is to be the first group to put the puzzle
together. Your friend may not remove the blindfold.
Discuss the problem briefly then take action and to help
your friend complete the puzzle. When your group
finishes, remain where you are and quietly observe the
other groups still working a their task.”

Take It to the Next Level
Discussion
• What were the instructions given?
• What were the rules of the game?
• What resources did you have?
• What limitations did you experience?
• What strategy did you team use to accomplish the task?

Make it Spiritual
In most cases you will find the unhandicapped persons
peeling the egg and doing all the work or the blindfolded
person being taken through a complicated process to
complete the puzzle. The less obvious solution and the
point of the task is to enable the individual to become free
to help himself or herself.

This is best accomplished if the two helpers remove the
socks from their friend’s hands, or the person able to use
his hands, but not touch the pieces to remove the
blindfold thus freeing their friend to complete the task.
(The directions only stated that the person with the
socks or blindfold could not remove them.)

There were three ways around the problems:
1. Do it for the person
2. Instruct the person on how to accomplish the
activity or
3. Enable the person to do it him or herself.

This the role God has given parents. When we are
born, we are very dependent on them to do everything
for us. But very soon, they will start releasing some of
that role and teaching us, then enabling us to do things
for ourselves, to overcome our limitations. We gain
strength, knowledge, skills, and wisdom to be the
person God created us to be.

It would be a sad state to never grow and mature and never
be able to care for ourselves and someday care for others.
But the role of parents is not simply to equip us for life with
knowledge, skills and wisdom. We were created as spiritual
beings so that role also extends to preparing us for our
relationship with our Creator and Redeemer.

Make it Practical
1. Make a list of things you have learned from your parents
– skills and knowledge.
2. What have you learned from your parents, by example
and by their teachings about God?
3. What is our responsibility related to learning from our
parents?

Make it Personal
1. Thank your mother for sharing with you lessons
and skills to prepare you for the purpose God
created you for.

Scriptures
“Hear, my son, your father’s instruction and do not forsake
your mother’s teaching.”
- Proverbs 1:8
“My son, observe the commandment of your father and do
not forsake the teaching of your mother.”
- Proverbs 6:20

King Lemuel in Proverbs 31:1 said that it was his mother
who taught him about how to recognize a godly woman who
would be a godly mother for his children.
“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is
old he will not depart from it.”
- Proverbs 22:6 ESV

“The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself
brings shame to his mother.”
- Proverbs 29:15 ESV
“You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk
of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the
way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”
- Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV

“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for
teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in
righteousness, that the man of God may be competent,
equipped for every good work.”
- 2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV

“A fool despises his father’s instruction, but whoever
heeds reproof is prudent.”
- Proverbs 15:5 ESV
“And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in
favor with God and man.”
- Luke 2:52

“But as for you, continue in what you have learned and
have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned
it and how from childhood you have been acquainted
with the sacred writings, which are able to make you
wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for
teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in
righteousness, that the man of God may be competent,
equipped for every good work.” – 2 Timothy 3:14-17 ESV
(Timothy’s godly heritage was a result of his mother and
her mother before her (2 Timothy 1:5).

“He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in
Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach their
children, so the next generation would know them, even the
children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their
children.”
- Psalm 78:5-6 (See also Deuteronomy 4:10)

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