Mothers

I love looking at my journal on years past when I was a young mother. If I only knew then, what I know now! Here is something from 1992 when I was thirty –two. I was a mother of three: Ages, ten, seven and one. Mother’s Day in the U.S. and many places around the world is May 8^th

 

Recently I was listening to old conference talks when stumbled across a talk from April of 1992 where President Benson gave a list of 10 things he asked the mothers of the church to do. He follows up with saying that the men of the Priesthood and each son and daughter should do their part in helping make these 10 things happen.

1.    Take time to always be at the crossroads in the lives of your children, whether they be six or sixteen.

2.    Take time to be a real friend to your children.

3.    Take time to read to your children.

4.    Take time to pray with your children.

5.    Take time to have a meaningful weekly home evening. Make this one of your great family traditions.

6.    Take time to be together at mealtimes as often as possible.

7.    Take time daily to read the scriptures together as a family.

8.   Take time to do things together as a family.

9.    Take time to teach your children.

10.Take time to truly love your children. A mother’s unconditional love approaches Christlike love.

11. It reminds me of one of my favorite quotes about the power of women in these last days.

12. “Much of the major growth that is coming to the Church in the last days will come because many of the good women of the world (in whom there is often such an inner sense of spirituality) will be drawn to the Church in large numbers. This will happen to the degree that the women of the Church reflect righteousness and articulateness in their lives. … Thus it will be that female exemplars of the Church will be a significant force in both the numerical and the spiritual growth of the Church in the last days.”

On this May fourth, may the force be with you wonderful mothers!

Con amor,

Vero