“Because She Is a Mother”

LDS.org - Ensign Article - “Because She Is a Mother”

My visiting teachers came over today. I am grateful for them and the spirit they brought to our home. The message they shared touched my heart and led me to read a talk given by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland called "Because She Is a Mother". I have a wonderful mother. I know many other women who are wonderful in their motherly efforts and I'm glad to have such good examples. This talk helped me to feel renewed and encouraged. I hope it can help lots of other women.

When you have come to the Lord in meekness and lowliness of heart and, as one mother said, “pounded on the doors of heaven to ask for, to plead for, to demand guidance and wisdom and help for this wondrous task,” that door is thrown open to provide you the influence and the help of all eternity. Claim the promises of the Savior of the world. Ask for the healing balm of the Atonement for whatever may be troubling you or your children. Know that in faith things will be made right in spite of you, or more correctly, because of you.

"You can’t possibly do this alone, but you do have help. The Master of Heaven and Earth is there to bless you...Yours is the work of salvation, and therefore you will be magnified, compensated, made more than you are and better than you have ever been as you try to make honest effort, however feeble you may sometimes feel that to be.

~Jeffrey R. Holland "Because She Is a Mother" (Ensign, May 1997)