WAIT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4760, 6 October 1924, Page 1

WAIT.

TIME THE GREAT HEALER. Walt* Just wait! For about nine out of ten of life’s tangles are best solved by waiting. The greatest heater in the world is time. Time its the eternal mother, who knits and darns and weaves away forever fixing up her children’s patchles. It is time that covers the gnarled tree with lichens, and the old wall with ivy ; brings the green grass and daisies to flourish above the graves ; closes all wounds, hides all deformities, veils all ugliness with beauty, settles all quarrel,s, ends all wars, and hides at last all scars with mothering love. Are you distressed ovter your boy ? Give him time. He will grow out of those conditions than alarm you. Don't worry over the girl. There are certain fool stages every child must pase through. Sit tight and wait! Therte are many evils you cannot cure now. They are stubborn, and defy every medicine; but if you let them alone they will disappear. Very often when you are worrited because you do not know what to do. the best thing to do is—nothing. Wait I Keep calm ! Keep your head and your heart! Bring up your reserves I Time is busy meanwhile. And time is the wisest of all doctors. You want success. You have done, are doing, your best. You do not understand why .your efforts do not avail. You become impatient. Perhaps bitter. Wait! Realise that your exertions are only one part of your success ; the other part is time. Don’t fret ! Your own is waiting for you, somewhere. Your own will come to you if you have the courage, not only to labour, but to wait. The great loom of the universe is working, preparing your fabric of triumph. The days and years are your allies. You cannot hasten destiny. The only thing you can get in a hurry its trouble. One rash act can precipitate sorrow and remorse. But your goal of happiness can be rfe,ached by no sudden dash. Only hell can be accelerated —not heaven. So do the best you can, and leave the results with tim'e. For time is another name for God, the cosmic process, destiny, that power not of ourselves that eventually has its way with us, and with all men. In ail your plans do not forget time!' Wait! Just wait!