Alabaster Boxes

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Alabaster Boxes

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love
and tenderness sealed up, until your friends are dead.
Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving,
cheering words while their ears can hear them and
while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them.
The kind things you mean to say when they are gone,
say them before they go. The flowers you mean to
send-use to brighten and sweeten their homes before they
leave them.

If my friends have alabaster boxes laid away,
full of fragrant perfumes of sympathy and affection I would
rather they would bring them out in my weary and troubled
hours and open them, that I may be refreshed and cheered
when I need them. Let us learn to anoint our friends beforehand.
Post-mortem kindness do not cheer the burdened spirit.
Flowers cast no fragrance backward over the weary way.

Author Unknown