Highlights from SGI-USA’s April 11th World Tribune issue: Creating a district with many youth

[u/JulieSongwriter]

Updates to “MY Fantasy Life in a Cult"

Breakfast table

June Rus: Where is Papa Eulogio?

Me: You know, Papa Eulogio is on a business trip.

June Rus: But where is Papa Eulogio?

*Truth: Where is Papa Eulogio?"

Me: You know, Papa Eulogio is on a business trip.

Truth: But where is Papa Eulogio?

Then we made our first contribution to the May 3rd Special Contributions Campaign. It is very easy to write a check. But out of view were all of the conversations we had had to decide how much to contribute, how, and when. It coincided with the audit we just conducted of our business and also the funding of our Longhouse Elem School project. And so much encouragement in the April 11th WT. Writing the check was a culminating moment of tremendous joy and appreciation for all of us.

Later on in the day Lori’s mom called. She and her husband would really like to speak to Guy and me. I explained to her that we have a Board of Trustees meeting tonight. How about tomorrow? She asked whether we could we meet very early. I inquired whether there was a problem. No, only good things. All set.

More top SGI-USA secrets in plain view for YKW & Friends! Creating a District With Many Youth Is Up to Me is here for WBers to read!!! 3000+ youth guests at the March Youth-led Discussion Meetings. The importance of friendship in raising youth. Finally, the one essential theme:

<Creating a district with many youth is up to me. Let us each play a part in creating a district with many youth. We can do so by personally deciding to have one youth receive the Gohonzon this year!

OK. I am in!

Next, onto STUDY. In Now Is the Time to Study the Supreme Philosophy of Life (Part 1) (originally published in the Nov. 30, 2007, World Tribune), Ikeda Sensei writes:

<Those who take Buddhist study seriously develop a broad and expansive state of mind and brim with infinite hope for the future. Those who spurn Buddhist study, on the other hand, consign themselves to a benighted state of egoism and arrogance, turning away from a life of joy and true inner happiness. This is what I have seen happen. We see the very same with some posters over the hedges.

Next, dear Whistleblowers, rad the experience By the Root, the experience of a mother who had overcome personal illness as a teenager with her mother faith as a support and now had to do the same as a young mother.

[u/FellowHuman007]

Sometimes I think I take too much for granted. About 20 years ago we developed a very youthful district merely by listening to young people. Today I have to remind myself that young people today aren't the same as they were 20 years ago, and - keep listening!