"ON CHILDREN"

You may give them your love but not your thoughts.  For they have their own thoughts.  You may house their bodies but not their souls.  For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.  You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.  For life goes not backwards nor tarries with yesterday.  You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.  The Archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, & He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.  Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Available Framed 8" x 10" matted in 11" x 13" wood frame or as large or small scroll. Scrolls usually have to be special ordered from the artist and may take up to two weeks.

Kahlil Gibran