DAY 17 - JESUS CARED FOR HIS MOTHER AND SO CAN YOU

Mary, His Mother
Although little of Mary’s life is actually recorded, what is recorded reveals a pattern of righteousness. That pattern is (1) faithful obedience to the word of God, (2) expressive joy for God’s blessings, (3) readiness to receive God’s witness and counsel from His servants, and (4) rearing a posterity who gloried God.   (ensign 2009)
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Today I honor Andrea - Braden's wife and a new mother to Hyrum. She is much like Mary, for she live in righteouness.  She is faithful and obedient.  She feels joy in all of God's blessings.  She is always ready to receive God's witness counsel from her leaders and her husband and she now is a mother who will raise her family along with Braden to glorify God.

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I honor Megan -Kris's wife.  She is the mother to Navy and Jensen.  She loves her children and even when she is overwhelmed with anxiety (which she deals with) - her children are never ignored and are well taken care of. She brings laughter and joy into their home.  She is also a Mary. I love them both and am so grateful for them.

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I am also thankful for my mother who cared for me and five other siblings - and buried two twin sons who died at birth.  She is a woman of faith, hope and obedience.

To all of our mothers everywhere, past, present, or future, I say, “Thank you. Thank you for giving birth, for shaping souls, for forming character, and for demonstrating the pure love of Christ.” To Mother Eve, to Sarah, Rebekah, and Rachel, to Mary of Nazareth, and to a Mother in Heaven, I say, “Thank you for your crucial role in fulfilling the purposes of eternity.” To all mothers in every circumstance, including those who struggle—and all will—I say, “Be peaceful. Believe in God and yourself. You are doing better than you think you are. In fact, you are saviors on Mount Zion,  and like the Master you follow, your love ‘never faileth.” I can pay no higher tribute to anyone. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.        Jeffery R. Holland