VIMALA PUBLIC SCHOOL THODUPUZHA
Testament of a Loving Father
Words to the Children
- Children, you are God’s investment in the hands of your parents.
- The children who have love of God and fear of God will love and respect their parents.
- Trust your mother; God will hear the mother’s request like the baby’s request.
- Wisdom and purity should be spiritual food, like food for natural growth.
- Laziness fosters evil habits.
- Let your friends be those who love God.
- Keeping of bad books is like hiding fire in straw.
- Regular reading of good books and meditating on it will illuminate the mind.
- You angels will be turned to devils, if you fall into evil situation.
- Your attire and sanctity ought to be according to your age. Immoderate attire will only lead you to evil.
- Let your ability be in piety regulating your life and controlling your senses.
- You ought to love truth and justice.
- Let there be no day in your life in which you did no good to others.
- Let not the insult and quarrels of others be a cause of hatred and enmity.
- Do not insult or trouble the poor.
- God decides your vocation and you choose it.
- Even if you are grown in age and maturity you have to accept your parents and submit to them.
- Do not hate your own brethren.
- It is the duty of children to look after their parents.
- Do not be the cause of your parents shedding tears on account of you.
- Since you belong to God, you should be given back to God.