2047. Why Being an Imperfect Mother is a gift! in Meridian Magazine
Why being an imperfect mother is a gift Excerpted from “To Cheer and To Bless: Celebrating 20 Years of Time Out for Women.” Address delivered by Emily Watts August 04, 2023 07:00 AM MDT If you read to the end, I'll mention things that show I was a very imperfect mother, especially with my firstborn son! Email Prin “One of the gifts of imperfection [is] that we get the chance to learn and to grow and to become.” Vera Livchak/Getty Images The following excerpt comes from a Time Out for Women address given by Sister Emily Watts in 2015. To read more Time Out for Women addresses, check out To Cheer and To Bless: Celebrating 20 Years of Time Out for Women , available now at Deseret Book. This past summer, we bought a new car. Well, a new used car—new to us. We only do it about every eight or ten years. It seems like there’s always some innovation in cars; cars do things differently than they used to. And the innovation for me in this car is that when you turn it on, the lights go