A Sacred Trust

"Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate. As President J. Reuben Clark Jr. declared, motherhood is "as divinely called, as eternally important in its place as the Priesthood itself."

Sheri L. Dew

  

"God could not be everywhere, so he made mothers."

"As mothers in Israel, we are the Lord's secret weapon.

Our influence comes from a divine endowment that has been in place from the beginning.

 In the premortal world, when our Father described our role,

I wonder if we didn't stand in wide-eyed wonder that He would bless us with a sacred trust

so central to His plan and that He would endow us with gifts

 so vital to the loving and leading of His children.

I wonder if we shouted for joy at least in part because of the ennobling stature

He gave us in His kingdom. The world won't tell you that, but the Spirit will."

Sheri L. Dew

"We just can't let the Lord down. And if the day comes when we are the only women on earth who fin

d nobility and divinity in motherhood, so be it. For mother is the word that will define a righteous woman

 made perfect in the highest degree of the celestial kingdom, a woman who has qualified for eternal

 increase in posterity, wisdom, joy, and influence."

Sheri L. Dew

"And so, my dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and mentors. Please look to your faithful mothers for a pattern to follow." M. Russell Ballard Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us. No woman who understands the gospel would ever think that any other work is more important or would ever say, "I am just a mother," for mothers heal the souls of men. Sheri L. Dew