For My Mothers

I want to write about motherhood. There is no greater call, no higher privilege, and no more rewarding job than that of motherhood. Of this I am convinced.

What calling or career requires more of your spirit, time, energy, patience, and heart? Motherhood affords you every opportunity to serve and to love. As a mother, you are called upon to gain and impart more knowledge than any teacher. The mother is the heart and soul of the home… “When mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.” Motherhood demands a cheerfulness of spirit, an overwhelming optimism, a childlike wonder at all the good in the world. It requires you to seek and find the most amazing and interesting of God’s creations and use them to inspire and entertain your little ones.

Motherhood teaches patience. You must be patient as you watch your children struggle through a dark world, to bring forth the light in themselves. You must let them learn much for themselves though it would seem easier and quicker to tell them yourself. You must be the peacemaker. You must be the teacher. You must be the example.

You must love service and how could you not?! You serve every moment in motherhood. Whether you are cleaning, cooking, driving, teaching, comforting, disciplining, studying… everything you do is to be the good mother who can better serve her loved ones. And there you are, bringing joy to other’s lives! Is it not the most joyous calling to bring joy to others?!

A mother has the unique opportunity to learn about our relationship with our Heavenly Parents through her relationship with her children. What testifies better of this (besides the scriptures) than children?! She has the opportunity to be with and learn from the most pure of spirits. Children are so clean and so good!

Women definitely are blessed by their many chances to serve and bless others. Through blessing others, we are blessed. How blessed then are mothers?! How blessed are nurturers?! How blessed are we, when we serve on His behalf.. when we comfort the weary, lift up the hands that hang down, cheer the downhearted, love one another, inspire, and bring joy?! I’m so grateful to be a woman and a daughter of Heavenly Father! To have the opportunity afforded me in life, to have much demanded and required of me, to have so much influence and place in the lives of those around me, to have every chance to serve God and be blessed because of it! I’m so blessed, and I know from what source my blessings come! Thanks be to God for my womanhood!