In my youth (not so very many years ago) I would have finished that line with:
....the tough go shopping!!
Well, the Mall not holding near the allure for me that it once did, I'll modify the old saying just a bit to.... the tough meditate a little on St. Francis deSales. Printed in this space before, but worthy of repetition:
"The
everlasting God has in His wisdom forseen from eternity the cross that
He now presents to you as a gift from His all-knowing eyes, understood
with His Divine mind, tested with His wise justice, warmed with His
loving arms and weighed with His own hands to see that it be not one
inch too large and not one ounce too heavy for you. He has blessed it
with His Holy Name, annointed it with His Grace, perfumed it with His
Consolation, taken one last glance at you and your courage, and then
sent it to you from Heaven, a special greeting from God to you, an alms
of the all-merciful love of God."
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St. Francis de Sales, ora pro nobis!
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