Obstructions and Opportunities
By Horace Bushnell
You are never to complain of your birth, your training, your employment, your hardships; never to fancy that you could be something if you only had a different lot and sphere assigned you. God understands His own plans, and He knows what you want a great deal better than you do. The very things that you most deprecate as fatal limitations or obstructions, are probably what you most need. What you call hindrances, obstacles, discouragements, are probably God's opportunities. Bring down your soul, or, rather, bring it up to receive God's will and do His work, in your lot, in your sphere, under your cloud of obscurity, against your temptations; and then you shall find that your condition is never opposed to your good, but really consistent with it.—H. Bushnell.