In the Meantime

Motherhood, is, in fact, part of my life--or can be--on a regular basis. The latent qualities need to be stirred and utilized and strengthened and nurtured, like a seed in rich soil. The seed is indeed good, and will bear fruit, if given the opportunity. And, opportunity abounds for nurturing, which Julie B. Beck described as "to help to make grow." Growing a friendship, growing a testimony, growing greater understanding, intelligence, and intuition.

Sheri Dew gave a monumental address on the subject of the eternal nature of womanhood and motherhood, as our divine endowment. With great power she taught:

Eve set the pattern. In addition to bearing children, she mothered all of mankind when she made the most courageous decision any woman has ever made and with Adam opened the way for us to progress. She set an example of womanhood for men to respect and women to follow, modeling the characteristics with which we as women have been endowed: heroic faith, a keen sensitivity to the Spirit, an abhorrence of evil, and complete selflessness.

As daughters of our Heavenly Father, and as daughters of Eve, we are all mothers and we have always been mothers.

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