Mary the Mother of Jesus

When I first had Alyzah I was overwhelmed with the feeling that I couldn't believe Heavenly Father trusted me to take care of and raise one of his sweet children. And then there was Mary. Heavenly Father trusted her to take care of his very own Son, his ONLY son, the Savior of the World. Out of every woman in the whole world who ever lived, Heavenly Father chose Mary. How incredibly high Heavenly Father must have thought of her. Can you image what a righteous, faithful, giving, clean, and pure woman she must have been to be worthy to raise Jesus Christ? You can only imagine the temptations that Satan probably threw her way but she remained strong and obedient to HF in raising her son.

In Luke 1:28 the Angel Gabriel tells Mary "Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women." After the Angel Gabriel told her she would conceive a child at the age of 16 without having been with a man, Mary agreed to it and had faith that it was true. She said (vs 38) "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word". The Bible Dictionary says "Mary was a pure and chosen vessel".

And then Mary watched her very own son bleed, suffer horribly, and die on the cross and yet she still remained strong and faithful to the end. And Christ loved his mother and new her great worth. In extreme pain and agony as he hung from the cross, he used some of his last breaths possible to make sure John took care of his sweet Mother.

What a great example Mary is to me of a faithful woman and an exceptional mother.