“How is it that a human being can love a child so deeply that you
willingly give up a major portion of your freedom for it? How can mortal love
be so strong that you voluntarily subject yourself to responsibility,
vulnerability, anxiety, and heartache and just keep coming back for more of the
same? What kind of mortal love can make you feel, once you have a child, that
your life is never, ever your own again?
“Can you hear in this language [why for mothers] we use words
like bear and borne, carry and lift,
labor and deliver?
“This kind of resolute love ‘suffereth long, and is kind, … seeketh not
her own, … but … beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things,
endureth all things.”
--Elder Jeffrey R Holland
