Today is my mom's birthday. She would have been 64 today. I love her because...

...she always encouraged me to strive for excellence
...she taught me how to be nurturing
...she was interested in people and their lives
...she knew how to laugh at life
...she was completely dedicated to her role as a mother
...she made me feel loved and adored

My younger brother forwarded along this quote today. I liked it very much and thought I should share.

"Surely those who have passed beyond, can see more clearly through the veil back here to us than it is possible for us to see to them from our sphere of action. I believe we move and have our being in the presence of heavenly messengers and of heavenly beings. We are not separated from them. We are closely related to our kindred, to our ancestors, to our friends and associates and co-laborers who have preceded us into the spirit world. They can see us better than we can see them--that they know us better than we know them. I claim that we live in their presence, they see us, they are solicitous for our welfare, they love us now more than ever. For now they see the dangers that beset us; they can comprehend better than ever before, the weaknesses that are liable to mislead us into dark and forbidden paths. They see the temptations and the evils that beset us in life, and the proneness of mortal beings to yield to temptation and to wrong doing; hence their solicitude for us and their love for us and their desire for our well being must be greater than that which we feel for ourselves.
--Joseph F. Smith