A Book for the Young

At New Year, Sarah French asks the young to reckon with the past: have their blessings made them grateful, or will their wasted hours rise up in judgment?

In the season of Christmas and New Year, French addresses her readers with a warm greeting—and a grave reminder that joy does not make anyone proof against sorrow. She speaks especially to young brides, whose bright hopes are about to meet the tests of married life, and urges them to temper expectation with patience and self-command. Then the book turns to a vivid poem: a powerful horse struggles against an unseen wrestler named Death. Across counsel and verse, French weighs the hardships life brings against the troubles we make for ourselves. Which trials can we meet with grace—and which might we have spared ourselves?

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