Mother Who Know part 1

My thoughts on Sister Beck's talk "Mother Who Know"

WOW!
What a message to the mothers of the church.
What a message to the women of the church.
What a message to the population of the church.

This is similar to the talk that President Benson gave us back in the 1987 “To the Mothers in Zion” http://fc.byu.edu/jpages/ee/w_etb87.htm I need to reread that talk again and meld the two of these talks together. But we need to discuss sister Beck’s words.

Mothers who know bear children.
As a mother who had fertility we are NEVER to judge other mothers by the number of children they have or don’t have. We are to celebrate each child and its birth. We are to “desire” children. When I was struggling to conceive I desired children like no one else. As my nephew and his wife are contemplating their family they seriously have to think about her health as baring children literally will kill her. She spends 8 months on drugs to keep her and the baby alive. They have one healthy child and just buried an infant. We are NEVER to judge their decision to have a small family. Now that I’m off my soapbox, we need to think about this eternally.
Our heart will be judged. How we value the children we have. How we raise the children we have. How do we value and raise the children that are placed in our stewardship, those placed in our home and those placed in our classes, teams and those that walk through the doors of our home. That is how we will be judged.

“… the value women place on motherhood in this life and the attributes of motherhood they attain here will rise with them in the Resurrection.”

May I only be worthy to live with those children I bore and raised. May I never judge another women her decision to bear and raise children.