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Show A Lenten Meditation By RUTH TAYLOR "No man's life can rise higher than Uie things he loves and the things for which he lives." There is a fine sermon in thai line of Dr. Upperman's. Only as we as individuals and as a nation set our Ideals high can we hope for victory over the trials of life. If we love the great things in life friendliness toward and among am-ong all peoples, honest work, done in the spirit of service, if we live by a code of honor, giving our word carefully and keeping it precisely, then we can rise to the heights where we want to .dwell. We cannot rise if we put selfishness before selflessness, per. sonal prejudice before brotherly love. We cannot rise to the heights alone. We cannot seek good for ourselves alone. We have learned this anew in these days when war has forced cooperation upon us. I came across a line which beautifully beautiful-ly expressed it: "Rationing has taught the fine lesson that someone some-one must live beside yourself." We say that the thing we crave most for ourselves is on opportunity opportun-ity to progress. But to make real progress for ourselves, we must open the way to others. To have 1 opportunities 'for ourselves, all men must have them. In order to achieve the ends we desire we need wisdom to act justly, kindness to deal mercifully, understanding to deal with our brothers bro-thers as we would be dealt with, valour to fight cruelty and prejudice, pre-judice, generousity of spirit to love our brothers as ourself. In the Rowan County News, there was recently printed a prayer pray-er by Mary Stewart in which we should all join: Keep us, O God. from pettiness; let us be larger in thought, in words, in deed. Let us be done with fault-finding, and leave off self-seeking. May we put away all pretense and meet each other face to face without self pity and without with-out prejudice. May we never be hasty in judgement judge-ment and always generous. Let us take time for all tilings; make us grow calm, serene, gentle. Teach us to put into action our better impulses, straightforward and unafraid. Grant that we may reaUze it is the little things that create differences, that in the big things we are as one. And may we strive to touch and to know the great human heart of us all. and . O Lord God. let us forget not to be kind! |
