“Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do.\u00a0 Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared.\u00a0 To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.”<\/p>\n
– Lloyd Alexander<\/p>\n
The above quote is part of the author’s note to the book The Book of Three<\/span>, the first book in the Chronicles of Prydain.\u00a0 For those of you who have not read the Chronicles of Prydain, the ‘Assistant Pig-Keeper’ is an ordinary boy who has an extraordinary destiny, but he never learns it until the end of the series.\u00a0 The boy often unexpectedly stumbles into adventures.\u00a0 He is an unlikely hero but it is through his experiences that he learns and becomes wiser.<\/p>\n This quote really encouraged me today because I feel so much like an ‘Assistant Pig-Keeper’ these days.\u00a0 I feel like I am called to do a job beyond what I can do.\u00a0 Where I want to be feels far from where I am.\u00a0 I feel woefully inexperienced for the task before me.\u00a0 But I know how the Chronicles of Prydain end; I know what happens to the ‘Assistant Pig-Keeper’.\u00a0 He becomes so much more than we would have ever imagined upon first meeting him.\u00a0 So if an ‘Assistant Pig-Keeper’ can do it, maybe I can too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"