When DC stood up after the final weekend service and gave instructions to the GSM kids who participated in the RENEWAL weekend retreat, I thought, "I'm so glad these kids are getting biblical counsel, Godly advice and inspirational leadership from DC and his outstanding team of GSM leaders." Most worshippers had left the building, but the students remained as DC instructed their next steps. I snapped this photo when I saw how the kids were responding to their leader. That image, of a wise elder leading young men and women, motivated me to offer this post.
On February 21, 1825 an aged Thomas Jefferson wrote this "Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life" to young Thomas Jefferson Smith. In The Book of Man, William Bennett calls it "great advice from an old man to a young boy."
- Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
- Never spend your money before you have it.
- Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
- Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
- We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
- How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
- Take things always by their smooth handle.
- When angry count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.
Proverbs 12:15 - The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice.
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