a mothers intuition

Ive heard a story once told of mother busying herself with her housework while her children played safely in the back yard. While she worked washing the dishes it was easy for her mind to wander as it does to the thousand of thing left to do that day, the new family that had moved in down the street that she needed to take a welcome treat to, her husbands job that he was struggle with at the time, her ageing grandmother she needed to go visit, the plants that still needed watering, laundry folding, bills to be paid, food to be made.......... GO check on the baby........ I don't rightly remember what the baby had gotten into or what she saved it from just in the nick of time what I do know is that these stories are a dime a dozen. These stories range from interesting happenchance to awe inspiring testaments. These stories are as unique and diverse as the people that they happen to....

I don't know why Mothers intuition has been on my mind so much lately but it has. And as I sat pondering it recently the realization came to me..... of course.... why wouldn't it be mothers entrusted with this God given power. That is what it is isn't it. A God given power of the spirit! Why wouldn't it be mothers who care and protect and teach and spend every moment of their entire existence pining over these little creatures that we helped to create.... after all God himself said he entrusted the raising of these souls here on earth to the care of a mother! Wouldn't we also suppose he would entrust us with a power as glorious and magnificent as the calling?

Of course it would be mothers! of course it would be mothers who would be so in tune with the spiritual well being of their children that they can sense when to call, when to questions, when to stop, or go get, or protect, or say no when we have said yes a million times before! Of course it would be a mother that senses when a child is in need, or is falling away from the knowledge of the truth, or just needs a hug! Of course it would be a mother that can Spiritually FEEL the well being of another SPIRIT!! I ask you...... when, besides when a mother is pregnant, are their TWO spirits dwelling in ONE body? yes granted there are two bodies, I get that... but there is also two spirit within the confines of a single mortal body. How then is it such a stretch that that mother would know so in-depth the feelings and needs and wellbeing of another spirit, another spiritual child of our father in heaven. It isn't.... I for one can bare testimony of that!

I can bare testimony that I know what my children's spirits FEEL like! They were with me from the time of conception to the time of birth, or in my precious Amirra's case shortly after death. I understand now more clearly that the reason I didn't feel her leave when she died was because she didn't leave! She was there with me the whole time even after her spirit had left her body and I know that because I know what it felt like when she finally did leave!

I have a testimony that God has given us as mothers, weather we have bore our children or not, a very real power here on earth to be in tune with not only our spiritual needs and well beings but theirs as well... even if we have not birthed our children we are entrusted to raise them and with that trust and responsibility God entrust us with the power to do so beyond mortal limitations because he loves us and more importantly he loves them!

I have a testimony that there is a life after death.
today while siting in sacrament meeting my 4 year old obviously sensing I was feeling low turned to me and said out of the clear blue
"mommy are you sad because Amirra can live with us"..............
"yes tahlae"
"me too"......
"but you know bud sometimes I feel her close.. I feel her around us"
"yeah I do too".... be still my heart! I pray that he really does feel her!
"you know buddy she will always be your baby sister"
"I know mommy cuz families can be for forever"
and of course at this point I started balling and hugged him while he just smiled up at me and decided I needed to hear the whole song in its entirety! Oh my sweet son!

I testify to you that I know what my sweet Amirra's spirit feels like! I know what it feels like for the vale to be parted and your mind and your eyes to be opened to the things not quite of this world. I know what it feels like to have a conversation with a soul that has passed through the veil and I can tell you that that veil is very very thin. I know what it feels like when my daughters spirit draws near to me and I know that there is a life, an existence, a purpose and a plan after we pass from this side to the next. To me, my daughter is not dead..... she is so very much alive! Her spirit and her body are temporarily separated. And the pain of that is sometimes more then I can bare..... but she is not dead... and through the grace and glory of my God I can know and feel and be strengthened and uplifted and truly healed by the relationship that I can still have with her and the connection and bond that our spirit will share and cherish longer then time, longer then eternity, and most defiantly
Longer then Life