I attend the Marriage and Family class at church for Sunday school and the following quotes left an impression on me. I hope it helps you see how important you are!
"I don't remember much about her views of voting nor her social prestige; and what her ideas on child training, diet, and eugenics were, I cannot recall. The main thing that sifts back to me now through the thick undergrowth of years is that she loved me. She liked to lie on the grass with me and tell stories, or to run and hide with us children. She was always hugging me. and I liked it. She had a sunny face. To me it was like God, and all the beatitudes saints tell of Him. And sing! Of all the sensations pleasurable to my life nothing can compare with the rapture of crawling up into her lap and going to sleep while she swung to and fro in her rocking chair and sang. Thinking of this I wonder if the woman of today, with all her tremendous notions and plans, realizes what an almighty factor she is in shaping of her child for weal or woe. I wonder if she realizes how much sheer love and attention count for in a child's life" (Marriage and Family relations study guide, p. 47).
I used to feel that my husband's job and work was more important than mine. This made me feel like I wasn't worth much and that my job wasn't as important, but this quote from Pres. Ezra Taft Benson helps me understand my true worth:
"'Women have claim on their husbands for their maintenance, until their husbands are taken' (D&C 83:2). This is the divine right of a wife and mother. While she cares for and nourishes her children at home, her husband earns the living for the family, which makes this nourishing possible" (Marriage and Family relations study guide, p. 39).
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Thank you for sharing those quotes. It's good to have a dose of 'yes, you have worth' every once in a while. Not that I never ever hear it or anything but I guess I'm saying that it's always nice to feel like I matter in some way. So yes, thanks for posting them.
Thanks for sharing that. I think too often we mom's forget just how important we really are. You're awesome!
Hi, what a lovely quote, thank you for sharing!
I just clicked over from Natalee's blog--well, actually my husband did, and saw the books you were reading and came in to tell me he'd maybe just met my blogging twin!
Well, not quite--when I first read those books by Alfie Kohn and others, I felt compelled to write, write, write about all the stuff I was learning. I've since burned that blog into oblivion, but it was fun while it lasted.
Anyway, hope you don't mind a random drop-in from a stranger!
Those ARE beautiful quotes. It makes sense that they would be posted by beautiful you! You know, whenever I catch a glimpse of perspective, I realize that we women really do play one of the most important roles in the entire world. I love Elder Neal A. Maxwell's quote about that: “When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses?” We really DO do important things and that means we have worth, even when we don't feel like it. We just forget sometimes, that's all.
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