The verse

Keep the hearth-fire from going cold,feed it each day, one log, one breath;envy not the meteor's single night—tend the flame, and warmth outlasts the frost.

Reading

This slip bids you keep one steady fire—worth lies in feeding it daily, not in one fierce blaze. A flame matters not for its height but for never dying; ask not for fortune, only for constancy.

The temple keeper adds

The middle path. No drama from the god today — only a road you can still walk.

[ Draw another at the temple ][ Keep a traffic omamori ]