It’s 9:30 on a Friday night, and Jenedy Paige is in her studio putting the finishing touches on a painting that will be on display in a week.

She likes to talk and paint, so she’s chatting with me on the phone while she adds little details to her piece that depicts a woman named Kamali’i Stopper lifting weights with her young son, Grayson.

Paige has titled this painting “Strong Like Mom.” As she’s worked on it, she has thought often of “ Behold Your Little Ones ,” a 1978 talk about the power of motherhood from Gordon B. Hinckley, former president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

“How do you make a strong people? Well, you put the ideas into the hearts of the mothers, and then they inspire the kids,” Paige, an artist and mom of four based in Pleasant Grove, Utah, t

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