The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-30
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ITS raining daifodlls;
In every dimpled drop see
Wild flowers on the hills.
The clouds of gray engulf the day,
And oyerwhelm the town;
1t is not raining rain to me,
It's raining roses down
a health unto the happy,
A fig for him who frets!
1t is not raining rain to me
It's raining violets,
Robert Loveman.
1t Is pretty hard to see the daffodils
in the rain. when that particular day
on which You planned to go skylark-
ling turns out rainy, isn't it?
And yet the daffodils ale pretty sure
to be there, and often many more OF
them than 20 ureallze.
This is a word for the dicouraged
and rebellious people.
People to whom some wrench. some
disappointment, some very unwe-
come change in life has come.
Dear folks, it is hard for you to be-
live that in your particular change
or disappointment there can be any
prepa! alton for future happiness, but
truly there may be.
Again and again, even in my small
individual experience, have seen 1t
happen that the sharp unwonted turn
OF the road that seemed so cruel and
unnecessary, has been the very turn
that led straight to the land of the
hearts desire.
And more than once | have seen
the shock Of sudden misfortune and
suffering turn the trend OF life out
of some unto! tunate rut into which
II had gotten.
once on time there was woman
who went wrong because she thought
II would be too hard to get back, and
because She though she was having
good time, stayed wrong. Contln-
ual merry-making and the possession
of beautiful things, and admiration
and the semblance of love, hid the
horror and emptiness of her life from
her, until one day what she consid-
cred terrible misfortune came 10
her.
She became very III Of typhoid fever
Every one deserted her. She was
friendless and alone and in want. |
And. with all that had hid it from her
stripped away, she saw the horror |
and emptiness of her life--saw it so
plainly that she turned away from
II forever And today she Is good |
and happy woman with a home and
children.
If she had known how to pray she
would have surely prayed that the
sickness should have been ayerted,
and yet she would have been praying I
for destruction.
Ont of the rain Of disiliusionment |
came the daffodils of peace and hap
p.ness.
The woman who repeated to me |
the quotation which follows probably /
know as great disappointment as
any woman could, for on what was T
TO have been her wedding eve, she
found that her lover was unfaithful /
to her AS she quoted this. she said
Il have found it true
There Is help in the still places OF
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communion with God and ones own
soul. Bereavement is one of the still
places of life, disappointment is an.
other. We come out of deep bereaye-
ments out of great sickness, out OF
bewildering losses aud disappoint-
ments, out of all the seriously arrest
ing experiences OF life, II we accept (
such experiences In the right spirit,
With clarified wisdom, with renewed
faith, with better adjustment to The
Divine Plan. Az first ii may seem
when We ale called aside into the still
places, like turning back Of life up
on itself, an undoing of all its hopes
and purposes. But by and by we learn
that the still place Is instead place
where life gathers itself together
iinas Itself. heads with new power
and usefulness In The direction which
God indicates"
RUTH CAMERON.
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