| Finding the Way |
Chapter 5 |
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The story is told of a distinguished woman, that when she was a girl she was so homely that even her mother said to her one day: “My poor child, you are so ugly that no one will ever love you.” The cruel words fell into the child’s heart, but instead of making her bitter they had just the opposite effect. She determined that if her face was homely she would make her life so beautiful that people would love her. She began to be kind to everybody, to be loving, thoughtful, gentle, and helpful. She never became handsome in features, but she did become the good angel of the community in which she lived. It was love in her heart that transformed her life and saved her from utter disheartenment.
There are those whose lives have been hurt in some way, and who seem doomed to carry their marring or wounding through all their days, but whom the love of Christ can yet restore to beauty and strength. There is no ruin which He cannot build up again into fair loveliness. There is no defeat which He cannot turn into victory. To know that He is touched, the Christ on His throne of glory, with the feeling of our infirmities puts into the heart a new secret of joy which will transform the dreariest life into heavenly gladness.
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