Prodigal: That is an exceptional carrot.

Me: Speaking of exceptional.

This is from Theodore Roosevelt.

There are exceptional women, there are exceptional men, who have other tasks to perform in addition to , not in substitution for, the task of motherhood and fatherhood, the task of providing for the home and of keeping it. But it is the tasks connected with the home that are the fundamental tasks of humanity. After all, we can get along for the time being with an inferior quality of success in other lines, political or business or of any kind; because if there are failings in such matters we can make them good in the next generation; but if the mother does not do her duty, there will either be no next generation, or a next generation that is worse than none at all. In other words, we cannot as a Nation get along at all if we haven’t the right kind of home life. Such a life is not only the supreme duty, but also the supreme reward of duty. Every rightly constituted woman or man, if she or he is worth his or her salt, must feel that there is no such ample reward to be found anywhere in life as the reward of children, the reward of a happy family life.

The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; Psalms 20:1 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

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