January 20
Companions of the Way (Morning)Through the ages one clear flame of sacrifice has burned, and by its light men have seen God.
IF peace means satisfaction, acceptance of the whole of an experience as good, and if even we, in our weakness, can frequently find rest in the very presence of conflict and of tension, in the very endurance of ill in a good cause, in the hero's triumph over temptation, or in the mourner's tearless refusal to accept the lower comforts of forgetfulness, or to wish that the lost one's preciousness had been less painfully revealed by death,—well, if even we know our little share of this harmony in the midst of the wrecks and disorders of life, what limit shall we set to the divine power to face this world of His own sorrows, and to find peace in the victory over all its ills.
JOSIAH ROYCE