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A Family


I am currently studying Family Studies: Human Development here at BYU and have learned a lot. As I grow closer to my upcoming graduation, I am both excited and grateful to continue using the knowledge that I have learned.

More than anything, I have learned how incredibly important and sacred a family is. I have seen truths as I've studied in The Family Proclamation, and learned about what type of family I want to strive for in this life and in the world to come.

In a world where pressures for success and recognition are ever present, I have often times felt less than because of my desires to be "just a mom." Here is a poem I wrote about my feelings of why family and motherhood is important.


Rubber balls and plastic monkeys
Warm milk, sinks and dish suds on me
Crying, laughing, boisterous tones
All are components of the home

Papers, printers, fingers on keys
Meetings, handshakes, and"will you sign this please"
Recognition, people and fame
Are all things found within the workplace

When should I graduate? What should I study?
Wouldn't it be nice to find somebody
Somebody to cling to, to call my own
Someone with whom I could build a home

A home with children, a home with love
A home with the Spirit from above
Scriptures and songs, prayers and warm hugs
That is the life I'd want to love

Yet pulled each direction, I'm stuck in between
Stuck without meaning, stuck with no dream
the family I long for, may never be
If my eye sticks on fortune, pride and greed

I want to be heard, I want to be seen
But more than those wants, I want to be me
I want to be kind, I want to be pure
I want build something eternally sure

So I'll choose a family, I'll choose that life
I'll choose the title of mother and wife
I'll leave behind fun, for a joy of much more
and become the woman I wasn't before

A woman of meaning, a woman of depth
A woman of impact, not just of breadth
A woman who nurtures, a woman who cares
a woman whom without, no family'd be there.



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