October 4
Companions of the Way (Morning)For all the promises of God in Christ are yea, and in Him Amen.
THE good mind chooses what is positive, what is advancing—embraces the affirmative. . . . Truth and goodness subsist for evermore. It is true, there is evil and good, night and day, but these are not equal. The day is great and final. The night is for the day, but the day is not for the night. . . . Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop. Set down nothing that will not help somebody. . . . The affirmative of affirmatives is Love.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
THE WISE OPTIMIST