An Elder said that there was a farmer who was very rich and wanted to
teach his children agriculture. So, he said: ;My children, you know very well
that I am rich, so if you listen to me, you will get rich too. Then they told him:
;Tell us, please, father.” And he used a trick and said: “There is a certain day
of the year that if you are found working on that day, you get rich, but in my
old age I have forgotten which one it is. So don’t stop working even for one day,
lest you find yourselves blessed that day you do not work, so that the whole
year’s labour is wasted”
So we too, if we work unceasingly, will find the way of Life!
From Gerontikon
Translated by Dr. Nick Stergiou
