From today’s reading...
Next let us praise illustrious men, our ancestors in their successive generations. While others have left no memory, and disappeared as though they had not existed. They are now as though they had never been, and so too, their children after them.” Sirach 44:1, 9
Godly men, men of virtue, men who live a life of good works, who follow the commandments, have “offspring (who) will last for ever, their glory will not fade” (v13).
I think on our deathbeds, all we really want to know is that our life mattered. That we did more good than harm. That we lived as illustrious men, which means we were able to...
Stay the course.
Keep the faith.
Endure.
Now go sell something.