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 When You Are Young (a wisdom message)       


 When you are young,
 beware of adulations of you;
 and likewise,
 beware of belittlements.
 Spend time with yourself,
 not to say: I sure am great! or/
 I guess I am not worth anything;
 but to learn all you can
 and to understand who you are:
 body, heart, mind, spirit.
 Make wisdom your first concern
 so that the faith, hope, love in you
 grow, blossom, and bear fruit
 in accordance with the will of God.
 Where you find a weakness,
 a deviance from sanity,
 pray for the graces to overcome
 that weakness/ and allow reason
 led by wisdom to once again
 ascend the throne of your blessed being.
 Do not ever feel brazenly safe;
 rather, be constant in your vigilance;
 for you are not merely a physical being,
 nor just a being of variant emotions,
 nor just a creature of hard intellect,
 nor one who can--at will--escape/ beyond these.
 When you are young,
 do all you can to properly prepare
 for each new moment/
 so that, whether your life be
 suddenly short
 or unexpectedly/ long,
 the gift of wisdom will have guided you:
 pleasing you, pleasing others, pleasing Heaven.

 (originally from April and May of 2001)

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 Wisdom.
 *
 I can write fairly well
 about/ almost
 anything.  Huh.
 I can say
 you should;
 I can say
 we should;
 I can say
 I should; but
 can I do
 and/or
 someday
 do/
 what I
 say I should?
 Quite often not.

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 12.28.05  Wednesday  8:37 AM



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Brian A. J. Salchert