Mothers Day Lesson

Sunday I gave the Mother's day lesson to the Young Woman in our ward. It was a great experience, but bitter sweet. You can imagine the emotions and things was feeling.... luckily I asked all the women in the ward to participate. I asked them to email me a few words on how they felt about motherhood and their "divine roles". Each girl stood to read one. It was amazing. Here is the handout I gave each of the girls:

I bawled reading this quote to the girls:   “Yours is the grand tradition of Eve, the mother of all the human family, Yours is the grand tradition of Sarah and Rebekah and Rachel, without whom there could not have been those magnificent patriarchal promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob which bless us all. Yours is the grand tradition the mothers of the 2,000 stripling warriors. Yours is the grand tradition of Mary, chosen and foreordained from before this world was, to conceive, carry, and bear the Son of God Himself. We thank all of you, including our own mothers, and tell you there is nothing more important in this world than participating so directly in the work and glory of God, in bringing to pass the mortality and earthly life of His daughters and sons, so that immortality and eternal life can come in those celestial realms on high.” Jeffrey R. Holland

They must have thought I was a mess!

I closed with this one: "Be a woman of Christ. Cherish your esteemed place in the sight of God. He needs you. This Church needs you. The world needs you. A woman's abiding trust in God and unfailing devotion to things of the Spirit have always been an anchor when the wind and the waves of life were fiercest." J. Reuben Clark, "I say to you what the Prophet Joseph said more than 150 years ago: 'If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates'"

I am feeling not a whole lot when it comes to symptoms.. my chest is sore... and I'm tired.. but it can all be because of the meds I'm taking or just PMS symptoms on their way... I really don't know what Wednesday will bring. Trying to keep my head up. It just all seems so impossible.  Two days... Tomorrow... and then the test!