| The Secrets of a Beautiful Life |
Chapter 9 |
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Many of us cannot be used to become food for the world’s hunger until we are broken in Christ’s hands. “Bread corn is bruised.” Christ’s blessing ofttimes means sorrow, but even sorrow is not too great a price to pay for the privilege of touching other lives with benediction. The sweetest things in this world to-day have come to us through tears and pain. We need never be afraid to make sacrifices in doing good. It is the things that cost, that yield blessing. The ashes of our joys ofttimes nourish joys for other.
“Some sweet or tender thing may grow
To stronger life because of thee;
Content to play an humble part,
Give of the ashes of thy heart,
And haply God, whose dear decrees
Taketh from those to give to these,
Who draws the snowdrop from the snows,
May from these ashes feed a rose.”
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