"The Sacred Callings of Fathers and Mothers"

Coming this Sunday is Lesson 15 in the Ezra Taft Benson manual “The Sacred Callings of Fathers and Mothers”. Please take the time to read the manual this week and bring it with you to class. This lesson is chuck full of wonderful advice on the calling of parenthood. President Benson gives us 10 suggestions for fathers and 10 suggestions for mothers on magnifying those stewardships. Please read them and see how many you have encorporated in your role as a mother.

This lesson, as all of President Benson’s lessons speak to the “ideal”. in this case, the celestial family. Sisters, I testify that whatever state you find yourself in at this moment, excellent parenting is a skill-set you will eventually need in the Celestial Kingdom.

President Benson declared, “There is no more noble work than that of a good and God-fearing mother.” What examples have you seen of noble motherhood? As worldly attitudes about motherhood change, what can we do to uphold the sacred responsibilities of mothers? We were all reared in homes with mothers and fathers. maybe only a mother, perhaps a grandmother – what did you like and admire about the home you were reared in?

What greater tribute could be paid to mothers than the stripling warriors did as we read in Alma 56:47-48 “Now they never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers then they did upon their lives: yes they had been taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them. And they rehearsed unto me the words of their mothers, saying: We do not doubts our mothers knew it.”

Do we know that God will deliver us? Have we taught it to our children? Let's discuss, Sunday. 

With love,
 Karen Bateman