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MOTHER'S PRAYERS
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 Celebrating
Motherhood
by Betty J. Eadie
My
warmest wishes on Mother’s Day to all women. As a co-creator with God
and Mother Earth, a mother's direction is established and blessed. She
is a Spiritual Leader to her children, and her nurturing love is an essential
part of God’s divine plan for them and for her. As she connects fully
to this important role and responsibility, she can rise up to achieve
its highest potential, which is a growth that leads into the eternities,
where she will evolve higher still.
 Our homes and our families
are our most sacred and treasured gifts. It is my firm belief that women
are in the most advantageous position to make a difference in the sacred
lives of their children. As a woman of wisdom, a mother’s godly example
benefits her children to further their own growth. Children hunger for
the love they once experienced while in heaven, and they look to their
mothers for that love. Love is the most vital emotion for them, particularly
in their formative years, and their mother is its foundation. From their
earliest days, even while in the womb, children form their perceptions
and understanding of the world according to their mother's perceptions
and understanding. By her words and actions a mother sets the stage. For
her children she is the first source of tender love -- or of bitter resentment,
if she lacks it. Whether her children are of her own flesh or are those
she undertakes to raise or to teach, they will hold to her direction,
to her path, even until they complete the cycle and influence their own
children. In this way, a mother's example ripples forward through future
generations to come. But she influences more than her own posterity. A
mother who teaches high standards and principles in her home will raise
leaders who will advance the eternal progression of all God's children.
I quite often hear from
women who feel saddened by guilt that they have not been the godly mothers
they might have been to their children. If truth were known, all mothers
have had these same feelings. But it is never too late for a woman to
become a better mother and demonstrate her spiritual growth within her
commitments to God. Even a mother of grown children can use her love and
her tender example to influence her offspring. And the angels in Heaven
are always quick to aid a humble mother who tries.
Mother’s Day is also
a good time to reflect on all womanhood and to view the role of the female
more clearly. My father used to say that it took many good women to make
one good man. That made little sense to me in my youth, but now I see
the wisdom in his words. He said that, in just a single family, it takes
at least five women to develop the full growth of a man: a grandmother,
a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a granddaughter. I see this being fulfilled
in my husband Joe each time he interacts with our granddaughters. They
complete the cycle of his manhood, and he is becoming rich in his masculine
role. Yes, I see the wisdom in my father’s words. It does take the many
roles of the female to expand the life of every man!
To all women: I celebrate
the strength of your femininity, the woman you have become, and the woman
you are evolving into.
His
Eternal Love and Blessings Always,
Betty
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