I love those articles where elementary-aged schoolchildren respond to questions in amazingly insightful ways. With Mother’s Day approaching, you may have seen the one where such children answered the following questions about moms:

Why did God make mothers?
• She’s the only one who knows where the Scotch tape is.
• Mostly to clean the house.
• To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?
• He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
• Magic, plus superpowers and a lot of stirring.
• God made my mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

What ingredients are mothers made of?
• God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world . . . and one dab of mean.
• They had to get their start from men’s bones. Then they mostly use string, I think.

Why did God give you your mother and not some other mom?
• We’re related.
• God knew she likes me a lot more than other people’s moms like me.

That last one says it all, doesn’t it? When all is said and done, we know that our mothers love us in spite of who we are, sort of like God does.

I encourage you on this Mother’s Day to thank God for your mother, whether she is living or deceased. And if she is living, thank her for the love she showed you. After all, that really is why mothers exist, and all of us are surely better for it.