Article October 22, 1979 Issue

To be a mother

DARREN STONE NELSON

"I can't imagine wanting to be a mother," my young friend exclaimed. "How can you possibly know everything you need to know? How do you even know who to go to if you have questions? And once you decide to be a mother, you're stuck with the decision for years and years and years!"

My friend's questions are important, and it's encouraging to find people carefully examining their views on motherhood. The decision to become a parent is especially momentous, since it has such far-reaching influences and is hardly retractable. Yet motherhood is not a sudden, herculean assignment with grueling deadlines but no guideposts and no compensation.

A good way to satisfy basic doubts pertaining to parenthood is to start with a correct understanding of God as Life, as the Father and Mother of all. In this way it's possible to find practical reassurance; there are answers for every question that could arise. The basic answer is to let God be what He is—All. And this allness continues not just for years but forever.

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