I just opened a facebook account. I saw pictures of old friends from high school that I remember holding books, pom-poms, flutes, and balls that are now holding babies. It has touched the deepest place in my heart to see them as mothers. I thought to myself, "Now that is who that person really is." Our identity then was so tied up with our extra-curricular activities. But cheerleaders, swimmers, runners, students, dancers, student-body leaders wasn't who we were at our core, right? We weren't fully developed. It is so interesting for me to see them with the love of a mother in their eyes and in the soft lines on their faces. When I see these friends in a role that I never could quite imagine when I knew them 20 years ago, I recognize the soul of the person that I knew, looking more like themselves than they ever did back then. Who are we really?
"All human beings—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny. Gender is an essential characteristic of individual pre-mortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose."
The Family--A Proclamation to the World
http://lds.org/library/display/0,4945,161-1-11-1,00.html
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