Article April 26, 1969 Issue

The Standpoint of Opportunity

NANCY M. ORCHARD

How often one is tempted to believe that opportunity is lost in the past, therefore to be regretted and grieved over, or probable in the future, just out of reach! One does not often record opportunities naturally seized as a matter of course, but only those that have been missed.

A student of Christian Science had an illustration of this. She wanted some old Persian rugs in mellow colors and certain sizes. At a sale by auction she saw exactly what she wanted. But since she could not go to the sale, she asked a friend to bid for her. Her friend forgot, and the rugs went for a song.

A year or so later she realized that she still had not found what she needed and that she was saying, even out loud, "I shall never have such an opportunity again. " One day she heard herself say this, and she turned on it and said. "What did you say? I am at the standpoint of opportunity right now because God good, is ever present." A few days later, passing through a shop, she saw some old Persian rugs, exactly the kind she needed. They were better and cheaper than the ones she had missed.

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