Show discontent that person who la his or her lot it not only happier than ona aho vho is not bit tar more useful als content is a mighty barrier to the right performance of duty auti is the first of human laws love being divine contentment with one s lot must not bo confused with contentment with one self theres a marked difference most of the things that have to do with ones lot are external environment viron ment means surroundings beyond doubt or fuestion au estion we are influenced by our surroundings but just as indisputably are we able to influence our surroundings the fact that we cannot always control them is more than made up to us by the working of the law of compensation which grants us the fair choice of seeking other environment viron ment or amending our ways to that within which we find ourselves beyond this is the opportunity which is denied none absolutely none of doing with himself what he will for after all we have the record of many thousands of years by which to that birth and environment and all the boasted power of heredity are of small moment when pitted against human determination thus Is abo lot of each largely of his own making but when forces beyond control do burden and grieve and oppress the being even then of what use is the gnawing spirit of discontent Is tho worm less a menace to the tree whose current crop was forestalled by frost than to the one which escaped the blight of cold are wa living tor the sake of the things that affect us from without or for the sake of those which dwell within these are straight questions which we should ponder seriously it is just as necessary to inject a little sound logic into life as it is to hold to truth and cultivate faith to go through the world without ever stopping to ask whether this or that Is really necessary but all the way to blindly accept what comes as tho visitation of a just providence is to refuse the responsibilities bili ties of life and that la tho part 0 a coward |