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A lot is spoken of investments. The business men are familiar with the language, where there is a merge of stocks, drops of the stock exchange, exchange securities, values of currency.

The investments, very thrifty, are seen and reviewed, daily, consuming energy and concern.

Sometimes, they even cost some valuable hours of sleep, on account of the oscillation of the stock market.

If these investments fill the safes and bank accounts, there are others that fill the existence of blessings.

We should also think, about investing, for example, in friendship.

This is a security whose rate is always high. And each time more. There is no one who has not experienced, at least once in their life, the great value of friendship.

Therefore, it deserves a great investment. And investing in friendship is to dedicate time to a friend. To remember to call, once in a while, for no particular reason.

Only to ask how it is going, or to set up coffee some evening. A trip to the movies or theater.

It is to get a small treat, wrap it in colored paper of good-will and offer, without it being the day of friend, day of caring, day of anything.

Simply because it is the day of a friend to toast another friend.

It is to write what the soul feels, going beyond the affection and tenderness by whom, so many times, has already offered us a shoulder to cry.

Or has held our hand, in a special moment, saying nothing, at the same time expressing everything that the human language shows itself incapable of translating, in full.

Another good investment is the culture. Our own culture. It is not in danger of lowering its rate, on any day.

This investment requires the search for good books. Books that can be borrowed from libraries or friends.

Books that can be purchased, every month, very week. Exactly as a serious investment. Long-term application.

Books that should be read and reread. Analyzed and discussed. Books whose content enriches the vocabulary, aerate the ideas.

Invest in courses that enhance the expression of the native language and of other people. Finally, that promote in us the growth of intellect.

Invest in children, the future of the world. This is an investment that starts at home, when the little one receives the first notions of love and virtue.

Investing in them is to find time to listen to the report of their personal achievement, of battles won, friendship gathered.

Counting with them the little rocks collected on the day, the balloons blown at the party, the candles lit.

Talk about the necessary, never too much, about the virtues to be achieved. Showing them, with optimism, the possibility of progress.

Teach them to love books, reading with them and making the treasures of the children's literature available, which should entertain, instruct and educate.

Speak to them of God, of live, of love. Sit with them, on the steps of the time, penetrate in their world and flood it to light.

Investments... There are some that are only for the days on Earth.

Others, that reach the borders of the Spirit and follow it, to beyond the gravestone and in future lives.

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Of all the investments, the most secure and perennial is the one in which men put the nobility of higher ideals.

The one that refers to the immortal Spirit that is on Earth, only for a brief passage.

And the best time to invest is the present time.

Spiritist Moment Team.
October 16.2014.

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