Not doubting

 And they rehearsed unto me the words of their mothers, saying:  We do not doubt our mothers knew it.

Alma 56:48

The legacy I treasure most from both of my parents is their faith.  I have never wondered about them.  They have shown me over and over my whole life who they are and what they believe.  Every time they encounter a trial, they have squared their shoulders and expressed their faith and lived their lives in an echo of their faith.

(Their parents were the same way.)

I hope I can hold up the line and pass it on.

Yesterday, Olivia asked my mom to send her quotes to us.  Engrained deep in my memory are the yellowed with age pieces of paper in "the drawer by the washer".  The drawer by the washer was the catchall sort of drawer every house has.  If you were looking for something random, it may be in the drawer by the washer.  If you were looking for my mom's mantras, they were also there.

My mom read and reread these quotes when she needed reminding, when she needed a boost, when times were tough.  I think the fact that my mom kept going back to reread is better than if she'd read them once and didn't need them again.

Life keeps being hard.  We can keep going to the source of comfort and peace.  My mom modeled that and I'll always be grateful.

Here's what she sent yesterday:

“I know that everything will be overruled for our good if we do right. No matter how difficult

circumstances may be to bear at the time, they are for our good, and God watches over us; His angels are round about us all the time.” 

Elder George Q. Cannon, November 27, 1864.

“Therefore, however dark the prospects may be, however gloomy, let us remember that He who sits on high knows our condition, and that He can deliver us.” 

President George Q. Cannon, August 31, 1884.

“All true Latter-Day Saints will be tested to the limit. Saints will be put to tests that will try the integrity of the best of them.” 

Heber C. Kimball

“True faith is only made manifest in heart-wrenching trials.” I don’t know who.

“The Saints should always remember that God sees not as man sees; that he does not willingly afflict his children, and that if he requires them to endure present privation and trial, it is that they may escape greater tribulations which would otherwise inevitably overtake them. If He deprives them of any present blessing, it is that he may bestow upon them greater and more glorious ones by-and-by.” 

Elder George Q. Cannon

Proverbs 3:5–6

Matthew 11:28–30

Doctrine and Covenants 121:7–8

And this from Elder Holland: 

“I do not know who in this vast audience today may need to hear the message of forgiveness inherent in [the parable of the laborers in the vineyard; see Matthew 20:1–15], but however late you think you are, however many chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes you feel you have made or talents you think you don’t have, or however far from home and family and God you feel you have traveled, I testify that you have not traveled beyond the reach of divine love. It is not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ’s Atonement shines. …

“So if you have made covenants, keep them. If you haven’t made them, make them. If you have made them and broken them, repent and repair them. It is never too late so long as the Master of the vineyard says there is time. Please listen to the prompting of the Holy Spirit telling you right now, this very moment, that you should accept the atoning gift of the Lord Jesus Christ and enjoy the fellowship of His labor” (“The Laborers in the Vineyard,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2012, 33).

So now it's recorded on my blog.  So if they ever read this, my children will know.