Nurture means to help someone to
grow and develop. It is to facilitate, provide love and influence, to care for,
support, educate, encourage, protect, and teach.
It is a big responsibility for
parents and teachers as well. If we have
or do not have children does not make a difference. We are members of a family. We are daughters,
sisters, aunts, cousins, nieces, and granddaughters etc. we do have
responsibilities and blessings as we are the members of God’s family, and we have a great responsibility to help and strengthen families specially children.
Everyone belongs to a family,
and every family needs to be strengthened, protected, and nurtured. No matter the current family situation, each person has responsibility to strengthen families, their
own and those they can influence.
It is a blessing and a
responsibility to nurture and sustain the family, and “few of us will reach our
potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers
who bear with us.
We remember with love and
gratitude the righteous women who have influenced our lives. We remember first
the love of our own mothers, those who bore us. We remember the righteous
influence of grandmothers, aunts, sisters, Primary teachers. All of these women
of God bore with us. They cared for us and about us. They taught us, encouraged
us, guided us, and protected us. They influenced our lives for good. They
understood that “whenever a woman strengthens the faith of a child, she
contributes to the strength of a family—now and in the future”
Every teacher or parent who
stands for truth and righteousness diminishes the influence of evil. Every
teacher who strengthens and protects her students is doing the work of God.
Every teacher who lives as a woman of God becomes a beacon for others to follow
and plants seeds of righteous influence that will be harvested for decades to
come. Every teacher who makes and keeps sacred covenants becomes an instrument
in the hands of God
Teachers are placed in a situation
where they can act according to those sympathies which God has planted in their
hearts. If they live up to their privilege, the angels cannot be restrained
from being their associates and they become the angel of their own kingdom.