No Charge

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We must also consider our relationship with constituted authority in the home. The commandment to honour father and mother is the first commandment with a promise that of long life. Parenting is a life long task and those who raise offspring successfully must be celebrated as mothers are in this season (and dad's next month).
Shirley Cesar has many songs about mother's but one that raised the hair on your skin is the one that began in her sister's kitchen. The sister's little boy submitted a list of chores and the charges for doing this chores totally $14.75. Caesar's sister presented the boy with her own set of chores and charged: "For nine months I carried you - no charge; for the nights I sat up with you, doctored and prayed for you - no charge" The song continues that his mother was not going to charge for the tears, years, late nights, toys, school, clothes, advice, worries and the cost of college. She concluded that when you added it all, the full cost of her love was no charge. It took six women to keep Moses alive, including Jochebed, his mother, which would have taught him about his Jewishness.

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