Mother In Heaven

In the church we have a doctrine unique to the christian world--that is that we are all spirit children of a loving Father and Mother in heaven. In Joseph Smith's life time we do not have any document specifically addressing this doctrine, but shortly after his death Eliza R Snow wrote a poem entitled "My Father In Heaven" which is known as our hymn "O My Father."  " This text declares: “In the heav’ns are parents single? / No, the thought makes reason stare; / Truth is reason—truth eternal / Tells me I’ve a mother there.”"

" In 1909, the First Presidency taught that “all men and women are in the similitude of the universal Father and Mother, and are literally the sons and daughters of Deity.”"
And in “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” issued in 1995, the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles declared, “Each [person] is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny.” (From LDS.org)
Our knowledge of our Mother in heaven is somewhat limited, but we do know enough to understand the sacred nature of this doctrine.

Now just one quick side note and this is NOT church doctrine, but only Roger's conjecture...
In Genesis 1:26 it reads "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."
My conjecture--We know that Christ created the earth under the direction of the Father and that this verse finishes up the creation with forming of man and woman. God says "let us make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness," but at that time as spirit children of God we were already in the image and likeness of Jesus, so maybe when God said "let us make man in our image..." he was speaking to our Mother in heaven...

At any rate I am thankful for the knowledge that we are spirit children of a loving Father and Mother in heaven.