Our Divine Roles As Women

I taught a lesson to the young women in our church this past Sunday. The lesson was entitled, "Attitudes Towards Our Divine Roles As Women." Wow. Divine. We have DIVINE roles as women in this world. I believe that. I really, really do. The lesson started off with this little poem,

"You never know what a girl is worth,

You'll have to wait and see;

But every woman in a noble place,

A girl once used to be."

Take a minute to think about all the 'noble' women that you know, knew, or have ever heard of. They didn't wake up one day and become noble. They weren't born that way. At one point in their lives they were just a little girls, making tough decisions and trying to do what was right. They probably each had influences in their lives that molded them into the women they are now, and maybe they were the influences that have helped to mold you into the woman you are now. So I encourage you, be a noble woman. You have a divine role in this world as a woman. A mother, sister, daughter, wife, aunt, grandmother or whatever it may be. You are a daughter of our Heavenly Father, and He loves you. Don't ever forget it!

I found this wonderful message on Motherhood from Gordan B. Hinckley, who was our beloved prophet before he passed away last year.

“Most of you are mothers, and very many of you are grandmothers and even great-grandmothers. You have walked the sometimes painful, sometimes joyous path of parenthood. You have walked hand in hand with God in the great process of bringing children into the world that they might experience this estate along the road of immortality and eternal life. It has not been easy rearing a family. Most of you have had to sacrifice and skimp and labor night and day. As I think of you and your circumstances, I think of the words of Anne Campbell, who wrote as she looked upon her children:

You are the trip I did not take;

You are the pearls I cannot buy;

You are my blue Italian lake;

You are my piece of foreign sky.

(“To My Child,” quoted in Charles L. Wallis, ed., The Treasure Chest [1965], 54)

You [mothers] are the real builders of the nation wherever you live, for you have created homes of strength and peace and security. These become the very sinew of any nation.” Gordon B. Hinckley