| The Joy of Service |
Chapter 23 |
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One suggestion is that even grace has its day, and dies. The blessing of one grace is exhausted, and has to be replaced by the blessing of another. The days are full of transient graces, tender, beautiful, enriching, but passing with the day. We cannot keep them to give us cheer, comfort, or help, on other days. You cannot feed today on yesterday’s bread; it was consumed in imparting its nutriment. Yesterday’s fire will not warm your house today; its warmth was exhausted in giving out the heat which then made so much comfort for you. The light from your lamp which filled your room with cheer last night will not give you brightness again tonight.
In spiritual things, too, it is not otherwise. You kneel in your morning prayer, and as you commune with God there flow into your soul rich blessings of strength and peace. You come from your closet with a holy light on your face and a new secret of gladness in your heart. All the day the strength of that communing will be with you. But you cannot go another day on that same strength. It did its work, and passed away.
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