To: Scotswife
Every two years I had a baby, I was tormented with worries as everyone is with a little house full of children, G-d be with them! and I thought myself more heavily burdened than anyone else in the world and that no one suffered from their children as much as I. Little I knew, poor fool, how fortunate I was when I seated my children like olive plants round about my table. -- Glückel of Hameln, 17th Century Jewish woman
74 posted on
12/26/2007 5:10:19 PM PST by
Alouette
(Vicious Babushka)
To: Alouette
That sums it up very well.
Children are looked at as burdens, and at times they can FEEL like burdens.
But in the end - they are the ones who have given us the greatest gifts.
They’ve taught us unconditional love, patience, and kindness, and the value of self-sacrifice.
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