Keep Your Eyes Open

January 16.



Now our Lord Jesus Christ, Himself,
and God, even our Father, which hath
loved us, and hath given us everlasting
consolation and good hope through grace,
comfort your hearts, and stablish you in
every good word and work.


2 THESSALONIANS 2, verses 16 and 17.




When sorrow all our heart would ask,
We need not shun our daily task,
And hide ourselves for calm;
The herbs we seek to heal our woe
Familiar by our pathway grow,
Our common air is balm.


J. KEBLE.




Oh, when we turn away from some duty or some
fellow-creature, saying that our hearts are too
sick and sore with some great yearning of our
own, we may often sever the line on which a
divine message was coming to us. We shut out
the man, and we shut out the angel who had
sent him on to open the door. There is a plan
working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts
quiet and our eyes open, it all works together;
and, if we don't, it all rights together, and
goes on fighting till it comes right,
somehow, somewhere.



ANNIE KEARY.