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Showing posts with label MOTHERHOOD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MOTHERHOOD. Show all posts
12 May 2009
TOTW - Motherhood
THOSE THINGS WHICH WE CALL EXTRAORDINARY, REMARKABLE, OR
unusual may make history, but they do not make real life.
AFTER ALL, TO DO WELL THOSE THINGS WHICH GOD ORDAINED TO
be the common lot of all mankind, is the truest greatness.
TO BE A SUCCESSFUL FATHER OR A SUCCESSFUL MOTHER
IS GREATER
than to be a successful general or a successful statesman.
--Joseph F. Smith
unusual may make history, but they do not make real life.
AFTER ALL, TO DO WELL THOSE THINGS WHICH GOD ORDAINED TO
be the common lot of all mankind, is the truest greatness.
TO BE A SUCCESSFUL FATHER OR A SUCCESSFUL MOTHER
IS GREATER
than to be a successful general or a successful statesman.
--Joseph F. Smith
Happy (belated) Mother's Day
"Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels. To you mothers in Israel we say God bless and protect you, and give you the strength and courage, the faith and knowledge, the holy love and consecration to duty, that shall enable you to fill the fullest measure the sacred calling which is yours. --David O. McKay"
"One cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God. Why? Because these to sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice in service, are as one. --Thomas S. Monson"
For a long time, mother's day was a hard day for me - having had several miscarriages. But over time, even before I had my children, I realized that mother's day isn't just for mother's who had their own children. Mother's day was for every woman out there that had a positive influence in a child's life. Womanhood is a marvelous part of being a woman, which rolls into being a mother. So, though I desired children at the time, and I did not receive them - I was still a mother at heart and that was an incredible "finding" for me. So next to that, now in my life, I have 2 handsome boys in my life, miracles, they are my joy! And I do enjoy mother's day a great deal - because they are in my life.
"One cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God. Why? Because these to sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice in service, are as one. --Thomas S. Monson"
For a long time, mother's day was a hard day for me - having had several miscarriages. But over time, even before I had my children, I realized that mother's day isn't just for mother's who had their own children. Mother's day was for every woman out there that had a positive influence in a child's life. Womanhood is a marvelous part of being a woman, which rolls into being a mother. So, though I desired children at the time, and I did not receive them - I was still a mother at heart and that was an incredible "finding" for me. So next to that, now in my life, I have 2 handsome boys in my life, miracles, they are my joy! And I do enjoy mother's day a great deal - because they are in my life.
04 May 2009
TOTW - Motherhood
Today's thought of the week (TOTW) from On Wings of Faith --
WOMEN, MORE QUICKLY THAN OTHERS,
WILL UNDERSTAND THE POSSIBLE DANGERS
WHEN THE WORD SELF IS MILITANTLY PLACED BEFORE
OTHER WORDS LIKE FULFILLMENT.
YOU ROCK A SOBBING CHILD WITHOUT WONDERING
IF TODAY'S WORLD IS PASSING YOU BY,
because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.
--Neal A. Maxwell
WOMEN, MORE QUICKLY THAN OTHERS,
WILL UNDERSTAND THE POSSIBLE DANGERS
WHEN THE WORD SELF IS MILITANTLY PLACED BEFORE
OTHER WORDS LIKE FULFILLMENT.
YOU ROCK A SOBBING CHILD WITHOUT WONDERING
IF TODAY'S WORLD IS PASSING YOU BY,
because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.
--Neal A. Maxwell
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