“My dear granddaughters, you cannot do everything well at the same time. You cannot be a 100 percent wife, a 100 percent mother, a 100 percent church worker, a 100 percent career person, and a 100 percent public-service person at the same time.”
Doing things sequentially, he said, “gives a woman the opportunity to do each thing well in its time and to fill a variety of roles in her life.”
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Thanks for reminding us of that. (Today, I feel about 5% of anything, at all.)
I often remind people in my similar circumstance, "Don't feel guilty about not going to the temple weekly or doing genealogy - you're MAKING family history right now." A season for all things.
Love this... need this... This should be a motto they make the RS recite each Sunday.
This quote is nicer than a big bite me to people who want me to do more in a calling. hehe
Thank you. I needed it too. I will try harder to pace myself.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Sigh. Of. Relief.
When/where did he say that? I'd like to read more.
Sept. 1986 Ensign article entitled- A Message to My Granddaughters: Becoming "Great Women"
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