My Creed

To live as gently as I can;

To be, no matter where, a man;
To take what comes of good or ill,
And cling to faith and honor still;
To do my best, and let that stand Don Bosco Utume September 21, Sunday: Issue 69
The record of my brain and hand;
And then, should failure come to me, • Jambo You(th) is a weekly news letter aimed at helping the Youth in moulding their daily
Still work and hope for victory. lives in Christ.
To have no secret place wherein • Our vision is expressed in just two phrases:
I stoop unseen to shame or sin; GOOD CHRISTIANS and RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS.
To be the same when I'm alone
As when my every deed is known; Pep-up : Stories for Reflection
To live undaunted, unafraid To the Young : Three Trees

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Of any step that I have made; Points to Ponder : The Positive Side of Life
To be without pretense or sham

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Saint of the Week : St. Stephanie
Exactly what men think I am.
To leave some simple work behind Poem : My Creed
To keep my having lived in mind; Last Drop : He Rescues the Birds
If enmity to aught I show,
To be an honest, generous foe;
Life saving mission!
To play my little part, nor whine Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed the boy ahead of him had
That greater honors are not mine. tripped and dropped all of the books he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a baseball
This I believe is all I need bat, a glove and a small tape recorder. Mark knelt down and helped the boy pick up the
For my philosophy and creed. scattered articles. Since they were going the same way, he helped to carry part of the bur-
by Edgar A. Guest den. As they walked Mark discovered the boy's name was Bill, that he loved video games,
baseball and history, and that he was having lots of trouble with his other subjects and that
Last Drop. he had just broken up with his girlfriend.
He Rescues the Birds They arrived at Bill's home first and Mark was invited in for a Coke and to watch some tele-
Once, while riding through the country with some other lawyers, Abraham Lincoln vision. The afternoon passed pleasantly with a few laughs and some shared small talk, then
was missed from the party, and was seen loitering near a thicket of wild plum trees
Mark went home. They continued to see each other around school, had lunch together once
where the men had stopped a short time before to water their horses.
or twice, then both graduated from junior high school. They ended up in the same high
"Where is Lincoln?" asked one of the lawyers.
school where they had brief contacts over the years. Finally the long awaited senior year
"When I saw him last," answered another, "he had caught two young birds that the
came and three weeks before graduation, Bill asked Mark if they could talk.
wind had blown out of their nest, and was hunting for the nest to put them back
Bill reminded him of the day years ago when they had first met. "Did you ever wonder why I
again."
was carrying so many things home that day?" asked Bill. "You see, I cleaned out my locker
As Lincoln joined them, the lawyers rallied him on his tender-heartedness, and he
because I didn't want to leave a mess for anyone else. I had stored away some of my
said:
mother's sleeping pills and I was going home to commit suicide. But after we spent some
"I could not have slept unless I had restored those little birds to their mother."
time together talking and laughing, I realized that if I had killed myself, I would have missed
that time and so many others that might follow. So you see, Mark, when you picked up
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 Three Trees The Positive Side of Life
Once there were three trees on a hill in a wood. They were discussing their hopes and dreams • Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip
when the first tree said "Someday I hope to be a treasure chest. I could be filled with gold, silver
and precious gems. I could be decorated with intricate carving and everyone would see the around the sun every year.
beauty." • How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom
Then the second tree said "Someday I will be a mighty ship. I will take kings and queens across door you're on.
the waters and sail to the corners of the world. Everyone will feel safe in me because of the
strength of my hull." • Birthdays are good for you; the more you have, the longer
Finally the third tree said. "I want to grow to be the tallest and straightest tree in the forest. People you live.
will see me on top of the hill and look up to my branches, and think of the heavens and God and • Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you
how close to them I am reaching. I will be the greatest tree of all time and people will always re-
member me.." left open.
After a few years of praying that their dreams would come true, a group of woodsmen came upon • Ever notice that the people who are late are often much jol-
the trees. When one came to the first tree he said, "This looks like a strong tree, I think I should lier than the people who have to wait for them?
be able to sell the wood to a carpenter." and he began cutting it down. The tree was happy, be-
cause he knew that the carpenter would make him into a treasure chest. • Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us.
At the second tree a woodsman said, "This looks like a strong tree, I should be able to sell it to • You may be only one person in the world, but you may also
the shipyard." The second tree was happy because he knew he was on his way to becoming a be the world to one person.
mighty ship.
When the woodsmen came upon the third tree, the tree was frightened because he knew that if • Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
they cut him down his dreams would not come true. One of the woodsman said, "I don't need • Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened.
anything special from my tree so I'll take this one" and he cut it down.
When the first tree arrived at the carpenters, he was made into a feed box for animals. He was
• We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are
then placed in a barn and filled with hay. This was not at all what he had prayed for. The second pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are
tree was cut and made into a small fishing boat. His dreams of being a mighty ship and carrying different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same
kings had come to an end. The third tree was cut into large pieces and left alone in the dark. box.
The years went by, and the trees forgot about their dreams. Then one day, a man and women
came to the barn. She gave birth and they placed the baby in the hay in the feed box that was • A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a
made from the first tree. The man wished that he could have made a crib for the baby, but this detour.
manger would have to do. The tree could feel the importance of this event and knew that it had
held the greatest treasure of all time.
Years later, a group of men got in the fishing boat made from the second tree. One of them was
tired and went to sleep. While they were out on the water, a great storm arose and the tree didn't SAINT for the WEEK
think it was strong enough to keep the men safe. The men woke the sleeping man, and he stood September 24 St. Stephanie
and said "peace" and the storm stopped. At this time, the tree knew that it had carried the king of
kings in it's boat.
Finally, someone came and got the third tree. It was carried through the streets as the people Very little is known about St. Stephanie who was mar-
mocked the man who was carrying it. When they came to a stop, the man was nailed to the tree
and raised in the air to die at the top of a hill. When Sunday came, the tree came to realize that it tyred at Denderah in Egypt in the fourth century.
was strong enough to stand at the top of the hill and be as close to God as was possible, be- Stephanie, who was only eighteen years old, suffered
cause Jesus had been crucified on it. death together with about 500 Christians who were
The moral of this story is that when things don't seem to be going your way, always know that
God has a plan for you. If you place your trust in Him, He will give you great gifts. Each of the
accused of preferring Christ to the local gods. Their faith and courage are a
trees got what they wanted, just not in the way they had imagined. great challenge for us today.

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