Moses 1:39

For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
Moses 1:39

In the most recent general conference, we were counseled to try to "ponderize" one scripture every week.  I'm trying to do this.  The scripture for this week was one I've known for a long time.  It is the first of the scripture mastery scriptures and I wanted to relearn them.  What I learned this week while pondering this scripture is that Christ's work is just that--work.  I'm not one to wish my life away, but sometimes I do think about how the future may not be so hard.  I won't have diapers and potty training and fussy babies and night-feedings and endless laundry that I have to do by myself.  As I thought about this scripture I thought about how my life as a mom is like Christ's work.  Not to downplay what He did or try to glamorize what I do, but isn't my job as a mom to teach my children the gospel with the hopes that they will learn it and live it and love it and one day receive all that God has?  And just as Christ said what He did was work, so is my life.  It's not going to get easier and it's not meant to. While we work, we learn.  We are transformed and we grow.  We become capable of doing more than we thought we could.  And as we work, be it as a mom or member of the church or anyone else engaged in His work, we are helping move along Christ's work of bringing immortality and eternal life to our fellow brothers and sisters.  And as we do this work, there is glory along the way.  Not glory at the end when all is said and done, but now. I am grateful for the "work" that is my life and hope it is pleasing in God's sight.