| The Secrets of a Beautiful Life |
Chapter 7 |
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God gives to every life that he sends into this world some message of its own to give out to others. To one it is a new revealing of science. Kepler spoke of himself as thinking over God’s thoughts, as he discovered the paths of the stars and traced out the laws of the heavens. To the poet God gives thought of beauty, revealings of the inner life, which he is to interpret to the world; and the world is richer, sweeter, and better for hearing his messages. Even to the lowliest man God whispers some secret of truth which he wants that man to impart by word or act to others. We cannot all make books, or write poems or hymns which shall bless men; but if we live near the heart of Christ there is not one of us into whose ear Christ will not speak some fragment of truth, some revealing of grace and love, or to whom he will not give some experience of comfort in sorrow, some glimpse of light in darkness, some glimmering of heaven’s glory in the midst of this world’s care. God forms a close personal friendship with each of his children, and tells each some special secret of love which no other ever has learned before. That now is your message — God’s own peculiar word to you; and you are God’s prophet to forth-tell it again to the world. Each one should speak out what God has given him to speak. If it be but a single word, it will yet bless the earth. Not to speak it will leave the world a little poorer.
Says Mozoomdar: “If the flowers should no longer be in the world, if the sun should no longer shine, how great would be our distress! If the bird no longer twittered on the budding bough of the tree, how greatly we should miss it! Everything is so closely connected with us that we cannot do without it. Everything has its corresponding fact in human nature, and every little thing has a destiny, a message. Orientals believe that each man and woman has a message, and the man or woman who accomplishes it is a true man or a true woman, but one who does not is an anomaly — one to be pitied.”
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