title: Sleeping Beauty and the Five Questions (CD): A Parable about the Hearts of Fathers and Daughters
author: Douglas W. Phillips
description: In Sleeping Beauty and the Five Questions, Doug Phillips challenges fathers on the importance of guarding their daughters' hearts at all costs, how to shield them from the pressures of a peer-oriented
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  FOR MUM AND DAD
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Among the old men who secretly came to this "house of the sleeping beauties,"
  there must be some who not only looked wistfully back to the vanished past but
  sought to forget the evil they had done through their lives … among them must
  be some who had made their successes by wrongdoing and kept their gains by
  repeated wrongdoing. They would not be men at peace with themselves. They
  would be among the defeated, rather--victims of terror. In their hearts as
  they lay against the flesh of naked young girls put to sleep would be more
  than fear of approaching death and regret for their lost youth. There might
  also be remorse, and the turmoil so common in the families of the successful.
  They would have no Buddha before whom to kneel. The naked girl would know
  nothing, would not open her eyes, if one of the old men were to hold her tight
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