'Alabaster boxes of your love
Alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness
Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak uplifting, cheering words — while their ears can hear them.
The things you mean to say when they are gone — say before they go.
If a sermon helps you — it will do the preacher good to tell him of it.
If the editor writes an article that you like — he can write a still better one next week if you send him a note of thanks.
If a book you read is helpful — do you not owe it to the author to write him a word of acknowledgment?
If you know a weary or neglected one, or one overwrought — would it not be such work as God's angels love to do, to seek to put a little brightness and cheer into his life, to manifest true sympathy with him, and to put into his trembling hand the cup filled with the wine of human love?