Be the best whatever you Are!

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill

Be a scrub in the valley--but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill; Don Bosco Utume August 26, Sunday: Issue 35
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.
• Jambo You(th) is a weekly news letter aimed at helping the Youth in moulding their
If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass, daily lives in Christ.
And some highway some happier make; • Our vision consists in two phrases: ‘GOOD CHRISTIANS’ and ‘RESPONSIBLE
If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass-- CITIZENS.’ Features
But the liveliest bass in the lake! Pep-up : Stories for Reflection,
We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew, To the Young : To the unknown Youth
There's something for all of us here. A Modern Prayer : An Evening Prayer
There's big work to do and there's lesser to do, Saint of the Week : St. Augustine of Hippo
And the task we must do is the near. Poem : Be the best whatever you are!
Last Drop : Hope
If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun be a star; Growing Good Corn
It isn't by size that you win or you fail-- A farmer grew award-winning corn. Each year he
Be the best of whatever you are! entered his corn in the state fair where it won a blue
By Smith Geo ribbon. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed
him and learned something interesting about how he
grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer
Are you in need of prayer? Jambo Youth continues to intercede for your special shared his seed corn with his neighbors. “How can
intentions and needs. Please send your prayer intentions to the editors through you afford to share your best seed corn with your
our e-mail; jamboyouth@yahoo.co.uk neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the
reporter asked. “Why sir,” said the farmer, “didn’t you know? The wind picks up pol-
len from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow infe-
rior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to
Last Drop grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.” He is very much aware
When one door of happiness closes, another opens: of the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbor’s corn
but often we look so long at the closed door that also improves. So it is with our lives. Those who choose to live in peace must help
we do not see the one which has been opened for us. their neighbors to live in peace. Those who choose to live well must help others to
Helen Keller
live well, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who
choose to be happy must help others to find happiness, for the welfare of each is
bound up with the welfare of all.
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Editors: Anastasio Sdb & Shyjan Sdb
To The Unknown Youth
I know you exist. You are there. You wait for me.
I see your bright eyes - filled with hope for the future.
I see a difficult environment around you.
I don't want you to become a victim.
I will come. We will walk together to a bright future.
You are the reason I wake up every morning.
For you I study, for you I work, for you I pray.
For you I do what I do. For your tomorrow I give my today.
Though unworthy I am I want to offer you my little effort.
I know you are saved by the grace of God.
I want to channelize that grace.
I know it is not the sermons that I preach
It is not even the treatises that I write
It is my fatigue at the end of the day
It is my loving efforts that will save you.
Yes, my work is redemptive.
I hear you calling out to me
I am sorry sometimes I am too busy to respond to you
Your noise disturbs my afternoon snooze.
I feel you want my company
I am sorry sometimes I am too busy doing errands.
You challenge me: good intention is not good enough!
I am learning still. Learning to make myself loved.
I am working on myself.I want to be my best self
so that it will be easy for you to love me.
I want to love what you love
so that you will share some values that I hold dear.
Not as the Greeks who erected an altar to the unknown god!
Not as the nations who erect a monument to the unknown soldier.
I make no altar nor monument,
because you are just there before my eyes.
I need only see you! In the class, in the playground, in the street,
even at my desk, in my prayer, in my meetings.
You are there. I want to reach out to you.
Know, it is enough that you are young for me to love you very much.
Sahaya G. Selvam, SDB
There are no elevators in the house of success. H. H. Vreeland
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An Evening Prayer for the Modern Youth
Every single evening as I'm lying here in bed this tiny little prayer
keeps running through my head. God bless my mom and dad, and
other family. Keep them warm and safe from harm for they are
close to me. And God, there is one more thing I wish that you could
do. Hope you don't mind me asking, bless my computer too.
Now I know that it's not normal to bless a mother board, But listen
just a second while I explain to you 'My Lord'. You see, that little
metal box holds more than odds and ends Inside those small com-
partments rest so many of my FRIENDS.
I know so much about them by the kindness that they give. And
this little scrap of metal takes me in to where they live. By faith is
how I know them much the same as you. We share in what life
brings us and from that our friendship grew.
Please, take an extra minute from your duties up above to bless
those in my address book that's filled with so much love! Wherever
else this prayer may reach (to each and every friend) bless each e-
mail in the inbox and the person who hits send.
When you update your heavenly list on your own CD-Rom remem-
ber each one who have said this prayer sent up to you at God.com.
Amen.
SAINT for the WEEK
St. Augustine of Hippo , August 28
This famous son of St. Monica was born in Africa and spent
many years of his life in wicked living and in false beliefs.
Though he was one of the most intelligent men who ever
lived and though he had been brought up a Christian, his
sins of impurity and his pride darkened his mind so much,
that he could not see or understand the Divine Truth any-
more. Through the prayers of his holy mother and the mar-
velous preaching of St. Ambrose, Augustine finally became
convinced that Christianity was the one true religion. Yet he
did not become a Christian then, because he thought he
could never live a pure life. One day, however, he heard about two men who had suddenly
been converted on reading the life of St. Antony, and he felt terribly ashamed of himself.
"What are we doing?" he cried to his friend Alipius. "Unlearned people are taking Heaven by
force, while we, with all our knowledge, are so cowardly that we keep rolling around in the
mud of our sins!" He was baptized, became a priest, a bishop, a famous Catholic writer,
Founder of religious priests, and one of the greatest saints that ever lived.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. Les Brown
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