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I Owe, I Owe, It's Off to Work I Go!

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And it came to pass that after I, the Lord God, had driven them out, that Adam began to till the earth , and to have a dominion over all the beasts of the field, and to eat his bread by the sweat of his b brow , as I the Lord had commanded him. And Eve, also, his wife, did c labor with him . ~Moses 5:1 She didn't get up very quickly. She didn't get dressed very quickly. She didn't get her chores done very quickly. She was, like most of us, using her agency to argue, to fight, to protest. But.... did she understand what she was fighting? Who she was fighting? Do most of us ever understand who we are fighting? Moms & dads tell their kids they have to do chores. Why? Because kids make messes too? Because parents want their kids to learn to be clean and keep a clean home? Because they want to boss them around? Maybe parents want to be mean to kids because their parents were mean to them! Whatever.... D&C 90:18 "Set in order your houses ; keep slothfuln