Life’s Changes and Disappointments
ALL of us have more disappointments than we need to have. If we would learn to look upon life as an unfolding story of varied incident and ceaseless change, rising to its glorious climax, the ups and downs of it would seem less crucial to us. It hurts to be jolted out of our ruts; it is hard to bear losses, and sometimes harder to sustain wisely the inflowing of abundance. It wears upon us to toil for a great end, and to come far short of it. Yet there should be no real disappointment in all this, for we have no promise of immunity from change, or from failure to obtain our desires. If we expect to be undisturbed in a complacent walk we shall be disappointed. If we expect interruptions, we shall have fewer of those experiences that we commonly call disappointments.—S. S. Times.