| Finding the Way |
Chapter 8 |
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The presence of Christ changes everything wherever it is recognized. It changed everything for those men. The seas had never been so beautiful to their eyes before. The hills had never looked so glorious in their spring verdure. No morning had ever appeared in such radiant splendour as that morning. Their sorrow was changed into joy and their loneliness into the blessedness of holiest companionship.
So always, when Christ comes into our lives, all things are made new. A letter received the other day illustrates this. The writer has been a Christian many years – faithful, trusting, helpful, and full of good works. But during the past three months there has been serious illness in her home – a beloved daughter has been lying in fever. In this experience the mother has learned as never before how real is the love of Christ in the lives of His friends. “No story could be told which would be more wonderful than the story of the goodness shown to me these months, nothing more nearly reaching the miraculous than the way Christ has sent comfort and blessing to me and to my sick child.” Then she goes over the story, and it is wonderful indeed. At the moment of need the right comfort always came. A nurse was necessary, but could not be afforded. Then a message came from an old friend, not seen for years, and the nurse was provided. Letters came every day with their sympathy and cheer, just when the mother’s burden seemed too heavy for her to bear. Every memory of the suffering of these months is made bright with some thought of Christ’s love which came at the right moment. Everything has been transfigured for this mother. She found the fire burning on the beach, with fish thereon and bread, and the Master standing by.
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