Survive By Heeding Advice

When the parents are gone, the kids survive by heeding advice and carry on their wishes by honoring their true intent; flowers sprout and then bloom, never living their fragile, little ones to a fateful gloom... as sunshine nurtures them! Glimpses may not give us a full image, but they can reveal their glossary of life and death, and it depends on us how to put it into a consequent sentence and give meaning to it; our parents raised us up to a certain standard, hoping we'd pick up the slack where they left off! And will we be elated by parental pride, by doing all things that are beautiful and honorable... great things that endow us with exuberance and fortitude, to conquer every boundary and win every battle? History can take us there, showing us the ones who fearlessly dared: Moses who bashed rebellion and Jesus who lashed the whip! Many will stumbled on life's deception, others will cautiously follow its trail to wisdom, to find themselves acclaimed by glory and flourishing in their endeavors: they will find immortality; and if anyone was deceived by the notion... that nothing outlasts us, they are completely wrong! There's no greater joy than remembering how our parents leaded a religious life without a spot, believing that obedience was a reward for longevity; and was God ever put out of their thoughts...not fortifying their spirits and making them stand on a solid rock? Foolish persons shouldn't be pitied for their self-inflicted wounds! The kids can survive by heeding advice, unfraidly facing their challenges, alleviating their fears with the words that they received from the elders: walking on a straight path, avoiding danger and harm, to live a golden youth and a longer life...when most youngsters lose these to drugs and lust; and with no gray hair on their heads and no stories to tell their granchildren, who are the victorious ones that should declare thier well-merited crown? Copyright 2009 by Andrew Crisci