"'Mother forgotten' is observed all too frequently. The nursing homes are crowded, the hospital beds are full, the days come and go often the weeks and months pass but mother is not visited. Can we not appreciate the pangs of loneliness, the yearnings of a mother's heart, when hour after hour, alone in her age, she gazes out the window for the loved one who does not visit, the letter the postman does not bring? She listens for the knock that does not sound, the telephone that does not ring, the voice she does not hear. How does such a mother feel when her neighbor welcomes gladly the smile of a son, the hug of a daughter, the glad exclamation of a child, ‘Hello, Grandmother!'"

Thomas S. Monson, Ensign, Apr 1998, 2