Broken Things to Mend

Tomorrow is my wedding anniversary and I will be married for 32 years.  Being a wife and a mother has it's blessings, many,.... and I am eternally grateful for all I have been given.  I am most richly blessed. 

I am reading the book entitled "Broken Things to Mend" by Jeffrey Holland and I would like to share a quote.  In talking to women he says:

"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. 

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 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 make 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 -- He who resolutely goes after the lost sheep, sweeps thoroughly to find the lost coin, waits everlastingly for the return of the prodigal son. 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. 

Remember, remember all the days of your motherhood: "ye have not come thus far save it were by the word of Christ with unshaken faith in him, relying wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to save."

Rely on Him. 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.  Like the woman who anonymously, meekly, perhaps even with hesitation and some embarrassment, fought her 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 their responsibilities as mothers, "Daughters, be of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole."  And faith-- your and your children's will make your children whole as well.