September Twenty-Second
Peter Simon Pallas born 1741.
Michael Faraday born 1791.
Theodore Edward Hook born 1788.
Man learns to swim by being tossed into life’s maelstrom and left to make his way ashore. No youth can learn to sail his life-craft in a lake sequestered and sheltered from all the storms, where other vessels never come. Skill comes through sailing one’s craft amidst rocks and bars and opposing fleets, amidst storms and whirls and counter currents.
—Newell Dwight Hillis.
O, a trouble’s a ton or a trouble’s an ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make it!
And it isn’t the fact that you’re hurt that counts,
But only—how did you take it?
—Edmund C. Vance.
And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
—Hebrews 6. 15.
Tender Father, may I not encourage the disposition to enlarge and make much of the troubles and disappointments of life, and make light of the joys and privileges. I pray that I may keep a large place for happiness. Amen.