GLAD MOR'S Dag

GLAD MOR’S DAG!

It is nice that we have one day a year to honor our Mothers. As I contemplate the Mothers in my family, I feel blessed beyond measure. I honor the remembrance of my Mother and the blessing of having her so long at my side. I still find times that I want to ask her something or share with her the joys and trials of my day. I honor my Aunt Nea (Linnea) for the many times that she mothered me, for she was truly an important Mother in my life. I honor my Mother in law and give thanks to her for my companion and the father of our children, for instilling in him as a young boy the desire for truth and knowledge. Our family should always call her blessed for raising him up for us. I honor my grandmother Inga who was brave to leave her homeland and come to this country for a better life. We all owe the blessings of being in America to her. I treasure the memory of knowing she always read the scriptures. I honor Hildegard who never saw me, but gave me the treasure of a wonderful father who instilled in me a love of my heritage. To those of you who are Mothers and Grandmothers to our grandchildren and great grandchildren, I honor you and thank you for being “true to the faith that your parents/grandparents have cherished”.
Your influence of righteousness and goodness will be felt for generations to come.
For you Mothers in waiting, be patient, your time will come. Motherhood holds the choicest blessings, that of sharing with our creator Himself in the service and joy of the immortality of eternal spirits. Last, but not least, I honor the many, many Mothers of Sweden that I have come to know. From them I have learned the principal of unconditional love. I do not know what they looked like, the life they led, or the people they became, but I love them. I have come to know their husbands and their children and their parents. I have felt of their desires and their needs. I often feel their presence and have had their assistance in learning the joys and sorrows of their lives. I am thankful for the blessing and responsibility to be able to provide for them the blessings for which they have long awaited.
I would like to share with you the counsel to Mothers from Jeffrey R. Holland…..
“Rely on Him heavily, rely on Him forever and ‘press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope’. You are doing God’s work and you are doing it wonderfully well! He is blessing you and he will bless you, even, no,
especially when your days and nights may be the most challenging. Like the woman who anonymously, meekly, perhaps even with hesitation and some embarrassment, fought the way through the crowd just to touch the hem of the Master’s garment, so Christ will say to the women who worry and wonder and sometimes weep over the responsibility as mothers,……’daughters, be of good comfort; thy faith has made thee whole’…………..and it well maybe, your children whole as well.”
Happy Mother’s Day!