November 23rd thanks ---for Hannah Whitall Smiths book The Christians Secret To A Happy Life. I first read this book shortly after my salvation on September 24, 1956. I was 18 years old. This book, by this Quaker woman, helped lay another level of understanding to my New Life experience. I could so relate to the following: I visited once in a wealthy home, where there was a little adopted child upon whom was lavished all the tender love and care that human hearts could bestow. The child ran in and out, free and light-hearted, without a care. I thought what a picture it was of our wonderful position as children in the house of our heavenly Father. And I said to myself, Nothing would so grieve and wound the loving hearts around her as to see this little child beginning to be worried or anxious about herself in any way. How much more must the great, loving heart of our God and Father be grieved and wounded at seeing His children taking so much anxious care and thought! And I understood why it was that our Lord had said to us so emphatically, “Take no thought for yourselves.”
Posted on: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 11:46:06 +0000
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