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         Your young ones need your love manifest to them. How is this love manifest? You must put your arms about them and tell them, "I love you! I need you! You are precious to me!" This is how I love you. You must listen to their ideas and suggestions and give them room to implement them. You must take time to shepherd them and not be too busy. You must take time to draw them out. You must let them ask questions. You must let them take on your responsibilities, that they may feel used and useful. You must push them to the fore. You must be the carpets, an example of humility. Be there to catch them when they fall. They will fall, but the carpets will soften the blow--not by condemning them, but by letting them get up and try again.
         This is love, that a man lay down his life. No greater love has any man than this, that he lay down his life for the next generation. In doing so you shall save My Family, and this movement and this revolution. For only through your love and loving them will they want to stay. The greatest thing you can do is to love these young ones. One of your greatest callings is to love them into the Kingdom so that they will love Me and give their lives in loving service for Me. Love is what will inspire them and keep them. Love is the answer.



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