This post is part of the General Conference Odyssey. This week covers the Young Women's Session of the April 2013 Conference.
I have been thinking about this quote from Sister Mary N. Cook:
Your children will be blessed with truth as you weave your virtuous example and unshakable testimony into their lives and show them the way on the covenant path.
The parameters of this promise are interesting. It doesn't say anything about what our children will do with the truth or whether they will walk on the covenant path. When I was younger, that might have been discouraging to me—like what's the point of all that example and testimony if it's not going to get results? But I've been thinking about that simple statement "your children will be blessed with truth." It really is such an enormous blessing just to know truth! So many people don't know it, and know not where to find it. So many people have to start from scratch, falling into every kind of trouble and deception, before they manage to find what's true and lasting. And our children won't have that. They will still need to learn many things through their own experience, often hard experience, of course! But they will have this great gift of truth to come back to whenever they choose. From a young age, they will have been able to know and feel truth, to have it surrounding them in the very air they breathe. It has been that way with me. The knowledge that I'm a Child of God, that I have a Heavenly Father, has been in my heart and my bones since before I could talk. I could choose to disregard that truth, but I can't unknow it!
And this is a gift I can give my children and am giving them—no matter how many other flaws I have as a mother, or the things I don't do well or the mistakes I make—I will still weave my testimony of Heavenly Parents and Jesus Christ into their lives because that testimony is part of my life, and I will still introduce them to the reality of the covenant path back to God because it's my path. Whatever they choose to do with that truth—it will always be there for them.
Other posts in this series:
Holy Places—by Rozy
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