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THE PRICELESSNESS OF A WOMAN

   Many years ago one of the large eagles in Slovakia snatched from the front of a small cottage a sleeping baby wrapped in light clothing. Several people witnessed the event, and quickly the whole village turned out, trying to catch the eagle as it flew away with the baby. However, eagles fly and people do not have the ability to do so, except with the aid of some machine. The eagle eventually landed on a lofty crag. Most of the people from the village lost all hope for the child's life but some villagers were determined to exhaust every possible avenue and made effort to save the baby.
   First, a sailor who was between trips tried to climb to the high crag but after he reached a deadlock, accepted defeat, and abandoned the effort. He had failed but others refused to quit. Next, a rugged, highly experienced Highlander who was accustomed to mountain climbing also tried. He was committed to getting the child alive. Although he got closer to the baby, he, too, could not make it, so he turned back in failure.
   A frail peasant woman stood silently by while all of this was going on. Then she indicated her interest in trying out her ability. No one said anything, but it was obvious that everyone was thinking if a healthy, young sailor and a rugged Highlander had failed to scale the heights, what chance did this frail woman have? She removed her shoes and started putting her bare feet first of one shelf of the cliff, then another, and another until she rose to the level of the child. She lifted the baby from the eagle's nest while the villagers waiting below watched anxiously and fearfully.
   The descent was even more difficult than the climb because one wrong step would now result in the death of two people. Carrying the infant added to the difficulty but slowly, step-by-step, the woman descended the side of the mountain. As soon as she reached the bottom of the mountain, the amazed villagers welcomed her.
   She was the mother of the child. She remembered those moments of pain at child birth and the period she spent nursing the child in the womb. All these effort would not end up in futility she thought. This gave her the inspiration to step up to the mountain climbing exercise. Her love for her child enabled her to scale the heights that others could only dream about.

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