When we were in France Francoise kept a French copy of this booklet near her bed. I use to vacuum her room every morning and find it or under her bed, or on the floor by her bed or by her pillow but always someplace nearby and someplace different; a sign to me that she was reading it. I wish I could say that I had given it to her to read but either way I like the initiative she took to obtaining it and reading it for herself. To this day she still keeps a copy nearby. It’s a good little booklet to have around and I know it has helped her deal with a lot of the pressures that youth are often faced with. Which brings me to reading how Alexander the Great kept a copy of Homer’s Illiad under his pillow. We are not told whether he also read it but we can rightly assume that he did and the influence that book must had made on him. Not that I want to my children to be an Alexander the Great but I think to a great extent what we keep near our pillows will always have an influence on us. So I’ve made a goal this week to keep this on my bedside table to read every morning too.

For your very own downloadable copy of the booklet go here (scroll down to Youth Materials; it’s the fourth link under it).