Youth Posture for Balance & Elasticity

our Creator for even one moment. We enjoy the gifts of life but, alas, we forget the Great Giver of all when success crowns our efforts. It is then that all sweetness and loveliness of life departs and the materially successful person becomes merely a caretaker of many "things".

When there was struggle and insecurity in the earlier days of life, when the children were young, there was happiness and a bond of love and unity in all. Now, there is material security which is depended upon, and that radiance of life passes that "Egyptian's door" whose first-born attention is not to God, the Creator of all and the Giver of all good.^[1] When man becomes so successful in the world that he does not need to thank God with every breath, then indeed he stands alone. Even the Savior of mankind passes by that heart's door because it is closed to love.

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¹ Exodus 11:1-12:36, the Plague of the Death of the Firstborn.