(taken one week before mother's day laster year)
Happy Mother's Day!
I've been thinking a lot about the mothers in my life this morning and so many have impacted my life but the ones who mean the most to me is my own mother and my sisters. Being the youngest I have had the privilege of watching all my sisters become mothers and have watched my mother become a grandmother. It is a sweet thing to witness. I've seen them all grow in strength and faith and love as they learned what it meant to really be mothers. I've watched the process of motherhood mold them into selfless and Christ-like beings. I've seen the work and effort they put into creating strong families and the mothers of the stripling warriors like consistency they have in teaching their children the gospel. I've seen the absolute exhaustion that comes from giving everything they have to being a mother, and then observe as they somehow muster to give even more. I've seen them work hard to raise their children to be anchored in what is good and right. I've seen them protect and nurture and hold on so tightly to their children and, in some recent circumstances, I've seen them accept God's will and let their child go.
As I think about my sisters I can't help but feel that what they have become and what their children are becoming is directly correlated to how wonderful our mother is and what she taught us. We honor and revere motherhood because she does. We want to put our children and family first because she did. We want our children to be able to have the kind of mother we have so we put everything into it that she did and continues to still do.
My heart is full of love and gratitude to Heavenly Father for giving me my mother, my sisters who are now mothers, and the sacred privilege to one day become a mother myself. Thank you Mom, Becky, Tricia, Natalie, Mindy, Stephanie, and Kimmy for your example, your strength, your faith, and your zeal for motherhood. I am blessed to have you! I love you all very much.
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