A friend of mine died recently. He was relatively young and left behind a 16 year old daughter. Fortunately, he was quite well off but it got me thinking about the best legacy you could leave your children. What I came up with is very simple, but the truth is simple, isn't it?
I would leave them a few sentences and this is what I would say. "Love all that is good and true, both in their expression in this world and, above all, in their essential origin. And then know that this origin is in a being. It's not in some abstract ideal but a real divine being which is God. You cannot have good without God, and if you love good you must love God more because he is the source of it."
That's pretty basic, I know, but what more is there really? Everything else comes from that and without that anything else is irrelevant.
Of course, I would add all my worldly goods to avoid disappointment!
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