…As to domestic cares, you know
Mrs. Stowe has written a beautiful little tract on this subject --
"Earthly Care a Heavenly Discipline."
God never places us in any position in which we can not grow. We may fancy that He does. We may fear we are so impeded by fretting,
petty cares that we are gaining nothing; but when we are not sending any
branches upward, we may be sending roots downward. Perhaps in the time of our humiliation, when
everything seems a failure, we are making the best kind of progress. God delights to try our faith by the conditions
in which He places us. A plant set in
the shade shows where its heart is by turning towards the sun, even when unable
to reach it. We have so much to distract
us in this world that we do not realize how truly and deeply, if not always
warmly and consciously, we love Christ.
But I believe that this love is the strongest principle in every
regenerate soul. It may slumber for a
time, it may falter, it may freeze nearly to death; but sooner or later it will
declare itself as the ruling passion.
You should regard all your discontent with yourself as negative
devotion, for that it really is.......I know all about these little domestic
foxes that spoil the vines, and sympathize with you in yours. But if some
other trial would serve God's purposes, He would substitute it.
Elizabeth Prentiss
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