Work, while you have the light, especially morning light! We can never say enough to the young people how important their youth is. Old people sometimes fall into a fruitless regret of a lost youth, or try to forget instead, to live the end of their days without worries and thinking of a great help that their experience could bring to the young people. Every one of us should warn these young people about a great importance of their young years to the rest of their lives. Because their happiness, rank in society, peace of soul, earthly and eternal destiny depend of the aspiration of the days of their youth. Like a morning dawn has something grand in it, the same way the young years, full of strength, must be spend in deep, grand understanding of the beginning life.

Remember, that every day  is crucial for your destiny! Every one of those carries an embryo of your future, and your destiny depends on your young years, that make up the base of your whole life. Therefore do not let a single day go by without work on yourself; clearly analize the condition of your soul and since the very early years work on eradication of every evil and have high ideal before you.

Cherish this great gift of youth, consider it a treasure that has been trusted to you, don’t waste time, don’t miss a chance, that can not be returned, but use your young years when you can do so much for yourself and others!

(Translated from “Every Day is a Gift from God. Diaries of an Orthodox Priest”, author unknown)
Translation by Tatiana Rozzell copyrighted 2009/2010. All rights reserved