Old talk notes - Mother's Day talk assignment
About our family
We moved to Arizona in Feb. Marty retired
from the Army after 30 years of service. We have 8 children 7 of our
own and 1 foster daughter she is at byu. 4 grandchildren.
We have been asked to speak on Mothers day
and the Proclamation on the family.
Happy Mothers Day
Proclamation was introduced Sept 23 1975 at the
general RS meeting
Husband and wife have a solemn responsibility to
love and care for each other and for their children. "Children are an
heritage of the Lord" (Psalms 127:3).
Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness, to
provide for their physical and spiritual needs, to teach them to love and serve
one another, to observe the commandments of God and to be law-abiding citizens
wherever they live. Husbands and wives—mothers and fathers—will be held
accountable before God for the discharge of these obligations.
The proclaimation was given as a guide line that
we might have to follow
Encourage you to read the proclaimation often.
Drawing specific inspiration from the
proclamation
Memorized jogging waiting in line etc
Digesting and drawing inspiration
One day teen daughter. Friends
Impression sister needed
help. Got two flights for my son and daughter to go help her. My
Sister and my daughter had lengthy talks and my daughter returned with a
clearer perspective and began making wise decisions and my sister and her
family were blessed by this experience inspired by the proclaimation.
Mother's day encompasses more than just the
honoring of those who have borne children. It is the celebration of
motherhood--the divine nature of women. May we all feel a deeper appreciation
for the great blessing of motherhood not just when we celebrate Mother's Day
but everyday!
"...some women give birth and raise
children but never 'mother' them. Others, 'mother' all their lives but have
never given birth. And all of us are Eve's daughters, whether we are married or
single, maternal (Ensign,
You can always blame it
on me
I will always love you
By divine design,
fathers are to preside over their families in love and righteousness and are
responsible to provide the necessities of life and protection for their
families. Mothers are primarily responsible for the nurture of their children.
In these sacred responsibilities, fathers and mothers are obligated to help one
another as equal partners. Disability, death, or other circumstances may
necessitate individual adaptation. Extended families should lend support when
needed.
As Surgeon General noted,
it is easier for many children to find drugs "than it is for them to find
hugs." Probably the best thing that society can do for its toddlers is to
make "parent" an honorable title again. No job is more important, yet
no job is more often taken for granted. We teach work skills but not life
skills, how to change a carburetor but not a diaper, how to treat a customer
but not a child. Becoming a parent should be the result of love, …a source of
pride, and not remorse. Only then will our children be safe.
Put on thy beautiful garments, O daughters of
Zion. Live up to the great and magnificent inheritance which the Lord God, your
Father in heaven, has provided you. Rise above the dust of the world. Know that
you are daughters of God, children with a divine birthright. Walk in the sun
with your heads high. Know that you are loved and honored, that you are part of
His kingdom, and that there is for you a great work to be done which cannot be
left to others.
(Stand
a Little Taller, by Gordon B. Hinckley)
Neal A Maxwell once said,
We are here in mortality, and the only way to go is through; there isn’t any
around!”
Marjorie Hinkley, Her
happiest role was that of a supportive wife and mother (who) made good use of
humor to settle many of life's difficulties. I would add, the only way to get through life is to laugh your way
through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh.
Crying gives me a headache.
Keeping the scriptures in
the bathroom to read
Trying really hard to listen
to lengthy
Mom you never have time for
me-when I thought I was giving full attention.
Mother’s
Day is almost here and it has not been easy with the daily thoughts of Mom.
I find comfort in the knowledge that she is in a better place, but I
really miss her. I don’t like the idea that I won’t be able to call and
ask her how the day was and if Papa and Garry prepared the feast again.
Over and over I have had the impression that Mom would tell me to please
care for Sonya this next Sunday. She would say, “Please don’t cry, just
love all those beautiful young mothers around you”. Mom struggled as a
young Mom to provide for us girls. I know Mom would tell us to give
Sonya, Camille, Melinda, Natalie, Stefani, Janice, Nikki and Kerstin all the
hugs and love they need. She would also tell us to reach out to all the
young mothers who are struggling emotionally financially and physically to
provide for their young families.
My Mother was the best
example to me. Thank you Papa for loving and caring for her. I
remember after she had been married for a couple of years and she said, you
don’t know how wonderful it is for me not to have to worry about where the
money will come from to pay the bills.
I love you Papa. I
know you’ll get through this Mother’s Day because
Have
you ever wondered why prophets have taught the doctrine of motherhood—and it is
doctrine—again and again? I have. I have thought long and hard about the work
of women of God. And I have wrestled with what the doctrine of motherhood means
for all of us. This issue has driven me to my knees, to the scriptures,
and to the temple—all of which teach an ennobling doctrine regarding our most
crucial role as women. It is a doctrine about which we must be clear if we hope
to stand "steadfast and immovable"2
regarding the issues that swirl around our gender. For Satan has declared war
on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly
empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next
generation, the kingdom of God will fail.
Motherhood
is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence
of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and
nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.
President
Gordon B. Hinckley stated that "God planted within women something
divine."6 That something is the gift and the gifts of motherhood. Elder
Matthew Cowley taught that "men have to have something given to them [in
mortality] to make them saviors of men, but not mothers, not women. [They] are
born with an inherent right, an inherent authority, to be the saviors of human
souls . . . and the regenerating force in the lives of God's children."7
HUMPTY
DUMPTY'S MOTHER
"Humpty, if I've told you once I've told you a hundred times not to sit
on that wall. But would you listen to me? Noooo."
"Humpty, if I've told you once I've told you a hundred times not to sit
on that wall. But would you listen to me? Noooo."
."
MICHELANGELO'S
MOTHER
"Mike, can't you paint on the walls like other children? Do you have any
idea how hard it is to get that stuff off the ceiling?"
"Mike, can't you paint on the walls like other children? Do you have any
idea how hard it is to get that stuff off the ceiling?"
LITTLE
MISS MUFFET'S MOTHER
"Well all I've got to say is if you don't get off your tuffet and start
cleaning you room, there'll be a lot more spiders around here!"
"Well all I've got to say is if you don't get off your tuffet and start
cleaning you room, there'll be a lot more spiders around here!"
ALBERT
EINSTEIN'S MOTHER
"But Albert, it's your senior picture, Can't you do something about your
hair? Styling gel, mousse, something -- ?"
"But Albert, it's your senior picture, Can't you do something about your
hair? Styling gel, mousse, something -- ?"
ready
here, ready there, racoon
who s the
gal whose always there
I have learned over the
years wisdom beyond my own
Listen and be still
We should prepare the way
and then trust more in the Holy Ghost to teach our children
At a sacrament meeting a
speaker addressed several valuable insights and comments to the teenagers in
the audience. Prepeatedly during the talk one mother turned to her
son and whispered as she poked him, “Listen to that. That’s what I’ve
been trying to tell you. That’s whate you should do.”
Her motives were pure, but
if the Spirit were going to bear witness to the boy, prompt him or help him in
any way, she was making it impossible for him to hear or receive the message.
tribute
to their mothers had instilled obedience and faith in their sons.
Helaman’s two thousand stripling sons fight with miraculous
power and none of them are slain
Alma 56:47,4845 And now I say unto you, my beloved brother
Moroni, that never had I seen aso great bcourage, nay,
not amongst all the Nephites.
46 For as I
had ever called them my sons (for they were all of them very young) even so
they said unto me: Father, behold our God is with us, and he will anot suffer
that we should fall; then let us go forth; we would not slay our brethren if
they would let us alone; therefore let us go, lest they should overpower the
army of Antipus.
47 Now they
never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the
aliberty of their bfathers than
they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by their cmothers, that
if they did not doubt, God would deliver them.
48 And they
rehearsed unto me the words of their amothers, saying: We bdo not
doubt our mothers knew it.
10
Behold I say unto you that this thing shall ye teach—repentance and
baptism unto those who are aaccountable and
capable of committing sin; yea, teach parents that they must repent and
be baptized, and humble themselves as their little bchildren, and
they shall all be saved with their little children.
25
And again, inasmuch as aparents have children
in Zion, or in any of her bstakes which
are organized, that cteach them
not to understand the ddoctrine of
repentance, faith in Christ the Son of the living God, and of baptism and the
gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of the hands, when eeight years
old, the fsin be
upon the heads of the parents.
• • •
Are we not all mothers???
“Awe heck she’s awake
again?”
Attend church be valiant
take courage
"granteth unto men
according to their desire" (Alma 29:4).
It is
about standing joyfully where we have been foreordained to stand that I wish to
speak today. To do so, may I focus on just three principles from the Relief
Society Declaration.
AS
SISTERS, WE ARE UNITED IN OUR DEVOTION TO JESUS CHRIST
I have
come to believe that whatever we really want, we'll probably get. If we really
want money and status, we'll find a way to get them. By the same token, if we
really want to overcome bad habits or cultivate integrity or become more pure
so that we can better hear the voice of the Spirit, we'll find a way to do
those things as well. Fifty years from now what we have become shouldn't
surprise us, because we will have become what we have set our hearts upon.
Lucy Mack Smith
said"We must cherish one another, watch over one another, comfort one
another and gain instruction that we may all sit down in heaven together
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