Ray S S
Silver Member
Greetings, Here is a poem with some very good advice and would be good to take it to
heart. With life and times as they are today, you never know just when someone very
close to you can be taken away. We just lost Karen's sister to cancer after a brief fight
with it. She had a pretty good life, married for 56 years, and they have been very close
to us for several years. We have a lot of good memories over the years. We will miss her
dearly, but we know she is with the Lord now and we will see her again when our time
comes.
I have had this for a while and it seems like a good time to post it for others to read.
It is titled....
Tell Them Now
Written by....
Berton Braley
If with pleasure you are viewing
Any work a man is doing,
If you like him or you love him tell him now.
Don't withhold your approbation
Till the parson makes oration,
And he lies with snowy lilies on his brow.
For no matter how you shout it
He won't really care about it.
He won't know how many teardrops you have shed.
So if some praise is due him,
Now's the time to slip it to him,
For he cannot read his tombstone when he's dead.
More than fame and more than money,
is the comment kind and sunny.
And the hearty warm approval of a friend,
For it gives to life a savor,
And it makes you stronger, braver,
And it gives you heart and courage to the end.
If he earns your praise, bestow it
If you like him, let him know it
Let the words of true encouragement be said.
Do not wait till life is over
And he's underneath the clover,
For he cannot read his tombstone when he's dead.
heart. With life and times as they are today, you never know just when someone very
close to you can be taken away. We just lost Karen's sister to cancer after a brief fight
with it. She had a pretty good life, married for 56 years, and they have been very close
to us for several years. We have a lot of good memories over the years. We will miss her
dearly, but we know she is with the Lord now and we will see her again when our time
comes.
I have had this for a while and it seems like a good time to post it for others to read.
It is titled....
Tell Them Now
Written by....
Berton Braley
If with pleasure you are viewing
Any work a man is doing,
If you like him or you love him tell him now.
Don't withhold your approbation
Till the parson makes oration,
And he lies with snowy lilies on his brow.
For no matter how you shout it
He won't really care about it.
He won't know how many teardrops you have shed.
So if some praise is due him,
Now's the time to slip it to him,
For he cannot read his tombstone when he's dead.
More than fame and more than money,
is the comment kind and sunny.
And the hearty warm approval of a friend,
For it gives to life a savor,
And it makes you stronger, braver,
And it gives you heart and courage to the end.
If he earns your praise, bestow it
If you like him, let him know it
Let the words of true encouragement be said.
Do not wait till life is over
And he's underneath the clover,
For he cannot read his tombstone when he's dead.
