"Here is sweet, fragrant mouth to kiss, here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God; and the body in which it dwells is worthy of all it will cost, since it is the abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in God's name, I will make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other darlings had left me. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mother's heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderest cares, her life-long prayers. Oh, how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blest!"
Elizabeth Prentiss
Stepping Heavenward
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I love this quote, Casey. Thanks for posting. I don't know if you have read her biography but it is so good.
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