One warm spring day a gentleman tore down an outbuilding that had stood for thirty years. When all the rubbish had been cleared away the spot looked very bare, like a bit of arid dessert in the midst of the rich garden that surrounded it. But soon rain fell and then the sun poured down its beams, and in a few days there sprang up countless lovely little flowers, where for thirty years there had been neither life nor beauty, covering the unsightly place and making it one of the fairest spots in all the garden. The seeds must have been lying there in the soil all those years, but, having neither light, moisture nor warmth, they had never grown.
Many a roof covers a home life that is bare of beauty and joy. Yet all the elements are there that are needed to make it a true image of heaven in its blessedness and peace. In the children growing up together there are the possibilities of a very rich life, with deep joys, fond ties and mutual inspirations. There is wanting only the mighty transforming power of affection to bring out all these possibilities. Surely it is not right that so much blessing should be lost. There is not so much happiness in the world that we can afford to leave our homes desert spots when they might be blossoming gardens. Certainly it is worth while to think of the matter, for each of us honestly to inquire whether in our home there are not seeds of beautiful things that are yielding no beauty, whether there are not treasures hidden in our family life which we have never yet discovered, whether we are not blindly passing by Heaven’s richest gifts to us of friendship and tender affection lying within our own doors, while we press our quest into other fields and vainly seek for satisfaction.
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