Mother

It’s such a wonderful time to celebrate one of the biggest influences in our lives. Everyone has a mother, and whether for the good or bad, they always leave an impact. I’m lucky enough to have one of the best mothers God put down here.

It’s such a strange feeling to look back and realize how such a sort of time it is we spend with our parents. Yet their influence is a major impact on who we become. As a parent myself, my kids’ lives just seemed to zoom through quicker and quicker each year. I look back and realize my oldest is halfway to driving already. It feels like yesterday I had a bunch of babies running around. If you say otherwise, I have a bunch of pictures where they looked like babies.

A mothers life can not be easy. She performs the ultimate labor for her children and then watches as they grow and leave her. Honestly, mothers are the nearest thing to the Savior on this earth. As soon as a mother is pregnant, her life is immediately given to that child. She carries that child for 9 months, giving it all it needs to survive. Then, she suffers through labor  so that child might have life outside the womb so that child can be a free agent. After all that suffering and care mothers are expected to watch that child use their freedom with a hope they will make good choices in their lives.

The Savior also suffered a great labor for us so we could be free agents. He watches as we use that freedom with a hope we will choose to do good. He is loving, patient, kind, and just. Don’t these words also describe a mother? For you moms reading that and remembering a time of anger, remember also the Savior in the temple, throwing the tables and casting out those that defiled the temple, with a wipe. Sure, we are not the Savior, so our anger may not always be justified, but a mothers anger is always a deepest desire to help their child.

All you mothers out their, keep going. This is the most difficult job on the planet, and pays the least, yet has the biggest impact on the worlds future. Not a single industry in the world could survive if mother failed to do their job. You hold the world in your hands in a world that tries daily to take away your helping hands. Where the world turns their back on you their is One who understands you better than anyone because just as you have, he suffered for each child on this planet. He will never turn his back on you. He will lift you in the hardest times and carry you through.

Happy Mothers Day, friends. May you be lifted in your burdens and have the opportunity to fulfill a desire of your own hearts.