One of my pet peeves with our society is the celebrity gossip magazines that line the aisles as you want to pay for your groceries. Why do people honor and idolize fame-- especially when that fame is so often ignoble rather than noble? Drives me crazy. Gossip, gossip. Can't we raise ourselves above this and focus on the many other important, intriguing, hilarious, and beautiful things in the world?
Also, why don't we praise mothers more than we do? I love this quote from David O. McKay:
Also, why don't we praise mothers more than we do? I love this quote from David O. McKay:
"…Motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can paint a masterpiece, or who can write a book that will influence millions, deserve the plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will exert influence throughout the ages long after paintings shall have faded, and books and statues shall have decayed or been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give, and the choicest blessings of God." — David O. McKay
Imagine that instead of having billions of good moms and only a handful of famous celebrities, politicians, writers, artists, sports-stars, etc., we had the opposite. There were billions of Shakespeares, Jimmer Fredettes, Rembrandts, J.K. Rowlings, and only a handful --maybe only fifteen living women who were capable of being mothers, who were physically able to give birth to human beings and to raise them. How we would long to be one of the chosen fifteen! How we would envy that glorious experience! Think of it! Motherhood is so very miraculous. Never, never forget or undervalue this life mission so many of us are living!
Imagine that instead of having billions of good moms and only a handful of famous celebrities, politicians, writers, artists, sports-stars, etc., we had the opposite. There were billions of Shakespeares, Jimmer Fredettes, Rembrandts, J.K. Rowlings, and only a handful --maybe only fifteen living women who were capable of being mothers, who were physically able to give birth to human beings and to raise them. How we would long to be one of the chosen fifteen! How we would envy that glorious experience! Think of it! Motherhood is so very miraculous. Never, never forget or undervalue this life mission so many of us are living!
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