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Sirach is much the same as Proverbs, many sayings about how to live life.


Here are a couple:  Chapter 38: 16 - 23

    My son, shed tears for one who is dead with wailing and bitter lament. As is only proper, prepare the body, absent not yourself from his burial. Weeping bitterly, mourning fully, pay your tribute of sorrow, as he deserves, one or two days, to  prevent gossip; then compose yourself after your grief, for grief can bring on an extremity and heartache destroy one's health. Turn not your thoughts to him again; cease to recall him; think rather of the end.  Recall him not, for there is not hope of his return, it will not help him, but will do you harm.  Remember that his fate will also be yours, for him it was yesterday, for you today. With the departed dead, let memory fade; rally your courage, once the soul has left.

   44: 8 - 15

  Some of them have left behind a name and men recount their prais-worthy deeds.  But of others there is no memory, for when they ceased, they ceased.  And they are as though they had not lived, they and their children after them.  Yet these also were godly men whose virtues have not been forgotten, their wealth remains in their families, their heritage with their descendants, through God's covenant with them their family endures, their posterity, for their sake.  And for all time their progeny will endure, their glory will never be blotted out, their bodies are peacefully laid away, but their name lives on and on. At gatherings their wisdom is retold, and the assembly proclaims their praise.



Lyle; 22 Feb 1941 - 30 March 1991


 Lyle and Martin 1948


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