tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187023313115210530.post5487042705467561954..comments2021-09-07T05:53:29.892-07:00Comments on My (Mormon) musings on life and faith: Mother's Day Musings (or soapbox, depending on how you look at it)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187023313115210530.post-73598990915016663002010-05-13T09:39:03.882-07:002010-05-13T09:39:03.882-07:00Hear, hear! I think you hit this one just right.
...Hear, hear! I think you hit this one just right.<br /><br />=)Susan Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16049586085703324088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187023313115210530.post-59715121747351271222010-05-10T21:55:16.847-07:002010-05-10T21:55:16.847-07:00Jordan, thanks for your comment. That was a great ...Jordan, thanks for your comment. That was a great talk. I love Pres. Faust's quote, too, about how parenthood requires the best of ourselves. I think you pulled together a wealth of wonderful truth about the eternal importance of motherhood. I also really do believe in the notion of nurturing the rising generation as being something we ALL do -- whether we have our own children or not. I feel that need to nurture other children and youth that cross my path as well. The more I seek to do that, the stronger that felt need becomes...I feel the Spirit confirming that reality.<br /><br />Heidi,<br />I have a long way to go, too (!!) -- but this is part of why I write things like this - to remind me for those times when I'm not seeing as clearly that the truth of the Atonement can set me free from the traps I get caught in. Thanks for sharing your thoughts here.Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08215431222961203620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187023313115210530.post-25655077638920960542010-05-10T20:34:23.935-07:002010-05-10T20:34:23.935-07:00Every year my mother polls her children to see wha...Every year my mother polls her children to see what they did in their wards for MD. Her ward has kind of banned MD for years and she, the wonderful mother of 8 children, resents it. I have been one to sit in church and feel resentful with regards to something someone has said in a talk (never MD) but later, when that particular issue in my life has been resolved and healed, someone can say the exact same thing and it doesn't bother me one whit. There have even been times, a few glorious hours, at least, when I have been so full of gratitude for all the good in my life that absolutely nothing can offend me. Allowing the atonement to work in our lives, to make up the difference for those things we lack in our own character, in our lives, etc.,fills us with gratitude and eradicates pain. I have a long way to go with those hurts in my life that are being consistently thrust into my life by people who are supposed to love me, but I hope I have moved past feeling bad about something someone says in a talk at church, regardless of the subject.Heidihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660156433881882098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187023313115210530.post-88830305267259174472010-05-10T08:06:39.727-07:002010-05-10T08:06:39.727-07:00A couple years ago, my husband (then ward clerk) v...A couple years ago, my husband (then ward clerk) volunteered us for the Mother's day talks because I write a blog on finding fulfillment in motherhood. The bishopric was very concerned about some of these things you mention (to the point where some years, we haven't even had motherhood talks. How is that better?).<br /><br />As I read up for the talk, I came to the same conclusion, I think. I realized that I'm not a perfect mom, and I never will be—and that's okay. Just like being a perfect person, being a perfect mom is impossible on my own. But if I come unto Christ, He can make up for all my short comings. (There's a really great quote from Jeffrey R. Holland on this in the whole talk: http://www.mamablogga.com/happy-mothers-day/ )<br /><br />(Incidentally, the reason most mothers I know complain about Mother's Day is because their day goes like my Sacrament meeting. Hooray for a child who refuses to sing to you, and then throws a tantrum because he *does* want to go on the stand--to sit with his father. Hooray for dragging two fighting children out, just like every other week. But hey, at least this week I could laugh, instead of hiding in the cultural hall bawling for the next two hours again.)Jordan McCollumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16523599384793856702noreply@blogger.com