The Promises
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Reprinted with permission
If
we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will
be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a
new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor
wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity
and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have
gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That
feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose
interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.
Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon
life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will
leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which
used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for
us what we could not do for ourselves. Are these extravagant
promises? We think not.