
Of all the lessons we teach our children, our most beloved youth - perhaps love is the greatest! Whoever coined that infamous phrase - "Love makes the World go round" - was surely onto one of life's greatest secrets. Love of one's self. And that fine art of sharing your love with others. Is there any lesson more worthy of unending reminder?
Found this excerpt in an old volume of French devotions:
The young are seldom forbearing, because they so little understand the frailties of poor human nature.
Oh! if you could only witness the terrible struggles passing in the heart of that friend whose vivacity annoys you, whose fickleness provokes you, whose faults sometimes even make you blush....
Oh! if you saw the tears that are shed in secret, the vexation felt against self (perhaps on your account), you would indeed pity them. Love them! make allowances for them! never let them feel that you know their failings.
To make any one believe himself good, is to help him almost in spite of self to become so.
To a young child - love is often spelled "T I M E". Maybe if we somehow make time for our children and listen to them, and smile with them. Maybe if we comfort them when they are sad and encourage them when the need an uplifting thought. Maybe if we share our love with them, just maybe they will share this love with yet another.
What a wonderful world we live in. Here's hoping your and your little loved ones will experience the greatest gift ever passed down to us!
"But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. "
Psalm 71: 14-18
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