THE TRUSTING HEART

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 49, 13 March 1937, Page 15

THE TRUSTING HEART

These early months of the year are not easy one, s and the constant changes of weather make them trying ones for inany. We have niany suiferers from colds and chills and our outlook on life and the world becomes darkened in consequence. Despondency seems to be as much an ailment of this time of the year as influenza. I fhink that we need to remember that, if we are sharing as we ought to be sharing, the mind and spirit of our Divine Lord, then we caa face all life 's ill? with glad courage an.d quite invincible optimism and in an atmosphere of untroubled cairn and joy. The secret of the gallant soul and the tranquil life is the trusting heart. As we remember God, the God whom Jepus taught us to know, our loving FatheT, our understanding Friend, holy beyond all our dreams of purity and yet tender to our weaknessesi not only living in light and joy, but anxious that you and I should live in it too; the God who loves ns with a real personal love and takes us under His own all-powerful care — then surely we can walk all the ways of earth with happy freedom an.d tranquil heart. " I do not know what is before me, ' ' wrote a famous mi&sionary, "but I am building my nest in the greatness of God." That is the language of the i^rusting heart. Every day is a good day, for it ia God's day of opportunity. Whatever befalls is best. His will is love. His service freedom. His purpose is wise and kind, and, sure of Him, our souls can breathe a cairn which no happening can mar.— A.G.G. in The Bayswater Messenger.