Trying to wander in an
independent or a disconnected way among the other threads, it
would make of the whole web an inextricable snarl. Yet each
little thread must be as firmly spun as if it were the only one,
or the result would be a worthless fabric.
That we are entirely separate, while yet we entirely belong to
the Whole, is a truth that we learn to rejoice in, as we come to
understand more and more of ourselves, and of this human life of
ours, which seems so complicated, and yet is so simple. And when
we once get a glimpse of the Divine Plan in it all, and know that
to be just where we are, doing just what we are doing just at
this hour because it is our appointed hour,--when we become aware
that this is the very best thing possible for us in God's
universe, the hard task grows easy, the tiresome employment
welcome and delightful. Having fitted ourselves to our present
work in such a way as this, we are usually prepared for better
work, and are sent to take a better place.
Perhaps this is one of the unfailing laws of progress in our
being.
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