BUILDING a Testimony - Mothers Who Know

Sister Julie Becks talk, "Mothers Who KNOW" given in General Conference November 2007. As you know this is one of my MOST loved talks and have had it quoted on my blog for many months because it spoke right to me . I believed everything she said and I fundamentally believe I am most of what she said though I fall short often... all too often that is why I love it so. It builds me and reminds me what is most important and where my focus should be... all the time. I have very intense feelings about my motherhood and this talk sums up a great deal about what I am passionate about.... These brilliant and inspired words below are Sister Julie Becks words but they could have been mine. I believe them, I know our work as mothers is paramount, I know this it true, that is my testimony!
In the name or Jesus Christ
Amen

"Mothers who know desire to bear children. Faithful daughters of God desire children. In the scriptures we read of Eve (see Moses 4:26), Sarah (see Genesis 17:16), Rebekah (see Genesis 24:60), and Mary (see 1 Nephi 11:13–20), who were foreordained to be mothers before children were born to them. Some women are not given the responsibility of bearing children in mortality, but just as Hannah of the Old Testament prayed fervently for her child (see 1 Samuel 1:11), the value women place on motherhood in this life and the attributes of motherhood they attain here will rise with them in the Resurrection (see D&C 130:18). Women who desire and work toward that blessing in this life are promised they will receive it for all eternity, and eternity is much, much longer than mortality.
Mothers who know create a climate for spiritual and temporal growth in their homes
These mothers plan for the future of their organization. They plan for prayer, scripture study, and family home evening.
Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home. Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world’s goods in order to spend more time with their children—more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying. These mothers choose carefully and do not try to choose it all.

Women who know are strong and immovable and who do not give up during difficult and discouraging times.

When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children."