After dinner, we sit back
and listen to my husband read a chapter out of the book,
Things I have learned
This book has a few of the chapel talks given by Bob Jones Sr.,
to the Bob Jones College students
back in the day.
The book's preface mentions that
"these {chapel talks} were mechanically recorded
and ...released in the exact form in which they were given".
The following excerpt is a portion of what my husband read to us two nights ago.
I have meditated on it since then...
I have gained a new insight and peace about my journey in this life...
and the little black cloud that haunts my days...
perhaps
I have shook my fist and cried out in frustration at it
for the very last time...
* * * * *
"A man can do anything he ought to do.
If you ought to do a thing, you can do it.
People say to me, "I don't think that is correct.
I ought to do so and so, but I can't."
Well, if you can't you ought not to.
I have found that there is
always a way
to do the thing that I should do.
It may be difficult.
God doesn't always take us over smooth roads.
It isn't good for a horse always to travel a level road.
I learned when I was a boy that a horse could hold up longer
if there were some grades in the road
When a horse goes uphill he exercises certain muscles.
When he goes downhill he exercises some other muscles.
On a level road the horse exercises the same muscles all the time.
You needn't expect an easy way in life.
Life's road is never easy.
If you haven't any difficulties, that very fact makes difficulties for you.
A level, smooth road with no grades to go up
is the most difficult road
leading to the place we call success.
You can do anything you ought to do."
* * * * *
May your today
and tomorrows
be filled (!)
with uphills
and downhills...
and joy.
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