from my notebook: I WISH

I wish you the courage to be warm when the world would prefer that you be cool.
I wish you success sufficient to your needs;
I wish you failure to temper that success.
I wish you joy in all your days;
I wish you sadness so that you may better measure that joy.
I wish you gladness to overbalance your grief.
I wish you humor and a twinkle in your eye.
I wish you glory and the strength to bear its burdens.
I wish you sunshine on your path and health to carry you on your journey.
I wish you peace - in the world in which you live and in the smallest corner of you where truth is kept.
I wish you faith to help define your living and your life.
More I cannot wish you - except perhaps love - to make all the rest worthwhile.

-o-

this notebook is about four years old, so there.