Over the holiday I opened an old notebook and found this quote:
"The more we come to know Christ, the more we come to know ourselves, because we are all children of God."
It occurred to me how amazing this is and as I thought of Mary, I realized that every birth is of as much importance to Heavenly Father as the Christ child's. Every woman giving birth of as much importance as Mary. I think Heather is writing something about this for our book, but I just wanted to share.
"The more we come to know Christ, the more we come to know ourselves, because we are all children of God."
I am grateful that I know I'm a child of God and that my daughter knows she is. I sat with her in Primary on Sunday and she looked up at the picture of Jesus with the children and said to me, "That's Jesus, with children. Jesus loves Children. And he loves me. He loves all the people. Even the sad people."
The amount of trust Heavenly Father puts in us to raise His children is overwhelming. I'm completely humbled by the fact that I get to be a mother. I'm so grateful for the understanding of the literalness of our being His children, it makes every child precious and deserving of love and care.
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