| The Secrets of a Beautiful Life |
Chapter 11 |
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Then in your own sorrow you will be a comforter of others. Jesus, in his darkest hours, forget himself and sought to comfort others. On the night of his betrayal, when the shadows were deepening about him, he took the disciples into the upper room, and comforted them in their deep and bitter grief with the most precious words of comfort earth’s sorrowing ones have ever heard. Let those who are themselves crying out for consolation, go out into the sad world, and forget their won affliction as they seek to lift up other mourners. The words Christ has spoken to them in their hour of darkness let them speak forth again. Let the mother wither with the empty crib and the empty bosom go to the home where white crape hangs on the door, put her are around the mother who sits there in her bitter grief, and tell her she understands the pain of her heart, and then whisper to her the comfort of God’s love. In trying to console others, the mourner will find consolation for herself.
There is no other secret of comfort like this. Walk in the light while ye have the lights, and ye shall become the children of light. Then no darkness can overtake you, or quench the light that shines in you. Then you will be a light in the world to brighten other lives in their sorrow. Of a great preacher a poet wrote:—
“Where he trod,
Love of God
Blossomed into sight.
Form and hue
Lovelier grew
In the eternal light.”
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