MOTHER

A sacred gift is given

An eternal debt in place

The precious gift is life

The mother’s love is grace

The pattern formed then and there

Repeats itself again on earth

Each woman who offers herself here

Gives to others the sacred gift of birth

The sacrifice a mother makes

As she gives the gift of life

Is renewed throughout the years

As her child encounters strife

The worries never end for her

As she watches her child grow

Through thick or thin, good or bad

Joys and heartaches only a mother can know

Through it all as life recedes

As the mother nears the veil

The thing she desires the most

Is to see her child prevail

After the rigors of mortality expire

And there is no more pain to bear

After the Savior has dried all her tears

She wants to embrace her children there

For upon a throne of glory she reigns

Over the kingdom of her own

Her name held in blessed respect

And her posterity’s love is fully shown