| A story is told of a young Indian boy whose dignity and wholesomeness delighted a vacation visitor to the north country.The white man, being childless, but having an abstract taste for paternity, decided in a night of inspriation to make the great gesture and adopt the boy. A gleam with benignity, he announced to the young guide the next day: "I'm going to take you back with me to Chicago. You're to be my son." The Indian considered the suggestion coolly. What would he do in Chicago, he wanted to know. Well, he would go to school until he was old enough to enter the business. And after that what? Well, he would work his way up through the various departments of the factory. He would be a foreman, then a department head, then general manager. The boy was beginning to look puzzled, and the man who wished to be a foster-father felt his whole scheme of life to be under critical examination. He wanted deeply to justify it. "Finally," he went on in a great burst of genersoity, "when I die, you will inherit all that I have, my business, my house, everything." The boy still looked aloof and unpersuaded. "And then what?" he asked once more. "Why, then you'll be a rich man. You can do what you like, you can retire and come up here and spend all your time fishing." The boy's eyes widened in complete despair at being asked to follow such whimsical nonsense. "But I can do that now, " he said. (sometimes the truth is always there, its just how we as individuals interpret the meaning) |
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| We use to turn to our parents for answers, when we were children. As we grew, we began searching for answers down other avenues. There are no wrong paths in life, just detours. Which road we take is entirely up to us, Around every bend, there is another path... |
| The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, King of Israel To know wisdom and instruction To discern the sayings of understanding To receive instruction in wise behavior Rightousness, justice and equality To give prudence to the naive To the youth knowledge and discretion A wise man will hear and increase in learning A wise man of understanding will acquire wise counsel To understand a proverb and a figure The words of the wise and their riddles The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge Fools dispise wisdom and instruction (Proverbs 1:1-7) |