Article June 4, 1904 Issue

A Spring Message

GRACE H. WILMOT.

While at work removing the winter's covering of leaves and straw from flower beds and vines, I found in my wildflower corner this beautiful spring greeting: a single hepatica one of the earliest of the spring flowers, tired of its imprisonment among layers of leaves, had forced itself in its efforts for liberation, through six tough brown leaves. That such a slender, delicate flower could possibly push its way through an obstacle so great, seemed almost incredible, but there it was with its furry stem and delicate pink looking triumphantly upward. This was my message. The same Principle, law, and activity which enabled this little flower to make its way into the air and sunshine, enables us to remove every obstacle which impedes our progress into health and wholeness. With our faces ever turned upward, animated by patience, perseverance, and courage, like the little flower we may force a way through everything that hinders and retards our spiritual growth.

Though unable to remove the seeming obstruction, we may find a way through it unharmed. In Isaiah we are promised, "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee." Will not a recognition of the all-protective power of infinite Love enable us to meet every impediment with the assurance that if we cannot change circumstances, we at least can go through their "turbulent waters" victoriously? The dear little blossom could not remove the obstacle itself, but it forced an opening through it, and thus in accomplishing its mission it brought to one human heart fresh courage and hope.

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