From Generation To Generation

Antione de St. Exupery

“In a house which becomes a home, one hands down and another takes up the heritage of mind and heart, laughter and tears, musings and deeds.

Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations. Therefore, we do not neglect the ceremonies of our passage:

When we wed, when we die, and when we are blessed with a child; When we depart and when we return; When we plant and when we harvest.

Let us bring up our children.

It is not the place of some official to hand them their heritage. If others impart to our children our knowledge and ideals, they will lose All of us that is wordless, and full of wonder.

Let us build memories in our children in our children, lest they drag out joyless lives, lest they allow treasures to be lost because they have not been given the keys.

We live, not by things, but the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.”

On This Thanksgiving Day

Let us not be content to be passively grateful, but actively involved in sharing our values; giving to one another the qualities of caring, civility, and compassion that we desire to see manifest, and to see reflected in our neighbors and in our world.

Let there be heartfelt conversations filled with mutual appreciation; not talking about shopping lists… May we take the time to truly listen with our hearts, rather than prepare our words for a quick retort or a harsh debate.

On this day, and each thereafter, may we embody the blessings of being alive, of being together, and working together to repair our world, and making it more welcoming to the generations who will follow us…