Your eternal helpmate will gently hold you to your potential. She will give loving and thoughtful encouragement, as well as comfort and discipline. She will also lift you up when you are down and bring you back to earth when you are puffed up. She will bless your life in countless ways. As President Kimball said, “Brethren, we cannot be exalted without our wives. There can be no heaven without righteous women”
In recent years a debate has raged about the equality of the sexes. Women are not in any sense lesser creations than men. In fact, they lose something when they are compared to men. President David O. McKay stated, “A beautiful, modest, gracious woman is creation’s masterpiece” (David O. McKay, Gospel Ideals, Salt Lake City: Improvement Era, 1953], p. 449). Daniel Defoe, the great English writer, stated, “A woman of sense and manners is the finest and most delicate part of God’s creation, the glory of her Maker. … He gave the best gift either God could bestow or man receive” (quoted in England in Literature, ed. Robert C. Pooley, 1963, pp. 261–62).
Surely the secret citadel of women’s inner strength is their spirituality. In this they equal and even surpass men, as they do in faith, morality, and commitment when truly converted to the gospel. They have “more trust in the Lord [and] more hope in his word” (“More Holiness Give Me,” Hymns, 1985, no. 131). This inner spiritual sense seems to give them a certain resilience to cope with sorrow, trouble, and uncertainty.
- President Faust – May, 1988
via LDS.org – Ensign Article – The Highest Place of Honor.
I was trying to find something in the talks of the brethren to support my thinking that in encouraging masculine activities for our young men that we should not encourage them to do baby sitting as service. I haven’t found what I’m looking for yet, but did come across the above statements from Elder Faust.
I have always felt grateful for my wife, but after reading the words above I felt a stronger gratitude and called Amber to express my love and gratitude to her. I read her what Elder Faust said regarding how a righteous wife “gently hold[s her husband] to [his] potential” and that I could see this is true in our relationship. I joked that I knew she was still working on the “gently” part, but that I could see that she is always growing and improving.
HOW I LOVE MY WIFE!!!! 