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Everything There is a Season: . A Time to Weep, A Time to
Laugh.
Ecclesiastes 3
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These Things I Wish for
You
A Message from Paul Harvey
We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them
worse. For my grandchildren, I'd like better. I'd really like for them
to know about hand-me down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover
meatloaf sandwiches. I really would. My cherished grandson, I hope you
learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being
cheated. I hope you learn to make your bed and mow the lawn and wash
the car. And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you
are sixteen. I hope you have a job by then.
It will be good if at least one time you can see a baby calf born and
your old dog put to sleep. I hope you get a black eye
fighting for something you believe in. I hope you have to share a
bedroom with your younger brother. And it's all right if you have to
draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl
under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him. When
you want to see a Disney movie and your little brother wants to tag
along, I hope you'll let him.
I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you
live in a town where you can do it safely. On rainy days when you have
to catch a ride I hope your driver doesn't have to drop you two blocks
away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your mom. If
you want a slingshot, I hope your dad teaches you how to make one
instead of buying one.
I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books. When you learn to
use those newfangled computers, I hope you also learn to add and
subtract in your head. I hope you get razzed by your friends when you
have your first crush on a girl, and when you talk back to your mother
that you learn what Ivory soap tastes like.
May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on the stove
and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole. I hope you get sick when
someone blows cigar smoke in your face. I don't care if you try beer
once, but I hope you don't like it. And if a friend offers you dope or
a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend.
I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your grandpa and go
fishing with your uncle. May you feel sorrow at a funeral and the joy
of holidays. I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball
through a neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at
Christmas time when you give her a plaster of Paris mold of your hand.
These things I wish for you - tough times and disappointment, hard work
and happiness. Are we friends or are we not? You told me once but I
forgot. So tell me now and tell me true. So I can say....... "I'm here
for you." Of all the friends I've ever met, you're the one I won't
forget. And if I die before you do, I'll go to heaven and wait for you.
"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."
I Really Liked This. Hope You Do Too..... These things I wish for each
of you.
--- Paul Harvey
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Things I Wish for You
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