You followed your mother into my heart
Carefully tracing her foot prints that led to mine,
Knowing I was waiting for your loving arms.
You are the offspring of my body and my heart;
The proof of God’s mercy,
The proof of His love divine.
- CATHRYNE ALLEN
(Art by Nomi Wagner)
What are children to a mother
If not gifts from heaven’s door;
As jewels from God’s own bosom
Gifted to her heart forever more.
Entrusted with the greatest charge
Sealed with hope of tender care;
From His hands
To mothers given
As gifts of worth beyond compare.
- CATHRYNE ALLEN
“Motherhood is near to divinity.
It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.
It places her who honours its holy calling and service next to the angels.”
- The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints:
Heber J. Grant, J. Reuben Clark, David O McKay
My heart overflows with gratitude
For my darkest night
Because it brings You to me
Flowing like a river with its strongest might.
I bask in Your presence,
I bow before the foot of Your throne;
I surrender my heart
I surrender my soul
I surrender my all for You to own.
My mortality spreads before me day and
night,
I wince at bearing this heavy load.
I stumble and I fall,
The darkness seeking to swallow me whole.
I know He waits at heaven’s gate
Till I have learnt to walk the rough
domain;
I will hurry, I will run
I will grasp the heaven’s hand
That will lift me to His arms
Forever there to remain.
- CATHRYNE ALLEN
(Art by Joel Rea)
The lessons of my life flowed like a river
Winding through days, months and years;
I rescued a few but missed so many
From the currents as I saw them passing;
They drowned in a daze of my ignorance,
Unwanted and ignored but yet abiding.
I fish them now from the pool of my memory
And give them life everlasting.
- CATHRYNE ALLEN
I look to Thee to lift me up
When into depths of sorrow
I sink and comfort cannot find;
I look to Thee to lift me up
When nothing makes sense
In my troubled finite mind.
I look to Thee to lift me up
When forsaken I happen to be;
I look to Thee to lift me up
When trials seek to swallow me.
I will look to Thee to lift me up
When farewell I have to say,
Lift me up with tender mercies
In thine arms to gently lay.
CATHRYNE ALLEN
(Art: "Rescue Me" by Yongsung Kim)