Article August 24, 1957 Issue

MEETING DISAPPOINTMENT AS ITS MASTER

ROBERT DOLLING WELLS

A Naturalist tells of watching an ant carry a piece of straw that must have seemed a big burden to it. The ant came to a crack in the earth too wide to cross. Either by accident or design the straw fell across the crack, and the ant crawled over it to the other side. The moral may be this: the archenemy of progress and happiness is not the burden we may seem to carry, but the failure to use that burden as an opportunity to progress in the service of unfolding good.

Paul said that he took pleasure in trouble, adding, "For when I am weak, then am I strong" (II Cor. 12:10). The weakness of mortal mind, the failure of human events to reward or satisfy our earnest longings, will, if we learn the rules of divine Science, turn us away from the false and will open our vision to possibilities for progress that prove each burden light and the way ahead full of glory.

Trouble, regardless of its nature, is obviously undesirable in itself. Neither is it the medium through which God brings His blessings to man. When we are completely right, when we follow God's will in the small and the great events of our experience, the sweet sense of conscious worth permeates all that we see and do. But the evils that touch human experience serve us by reversal; we learn by them the unworthiness and nothingness of anything that does not evidence good, God, and the perfection of man, His beloved son.

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