INTRO.- Today we are here to worship the Lord and honor our mothers. Not only are we commanded to honor our mothers; it’s also the sensible and loving thing to do. Many of us here today would love to still have our mothers living, so we could honor them in person as we remember them and love them. ILL.- A six-year-old boy, separated from his mother in a supermarket, began to walk around the store yelling out: “Martha! Martha! Martha!” That was his mother’s name,

Mothers give their children many gifts. Some of those gifts are tangible; they are visible. We can see them. We can hold them in our...