THAT ILLOGICAL FELLOW
Around the Year with Emmet Fox
June 9
People sometimes say,
"I believe firmly in the spiritual teaching,
and I have done so for years,
but I have never, been able to make it work—
isn't that strange?"
And sometimes they say
this with quite an air of triumph.
Such people remind me of a man who used to boast
that he had an ailment that no one could heal.
He had successfully defied every school of healing
and had emerged triumphantly
still in possession of his affliction.
As it happens, his wife did heal him
later on, by prayer alone,
but she was a patient and persevering woman.
That man's wife probably points the way
to the overcoming of such illogicality.
The key to success
lies in just the qualities that she obviously had;
patience combined with
a gentle and unhurried expectation of success.
The patient whom she healed is not a rare specimen,
nor is he unknown to any one of us.
We are all likely to encounter him
under our own hat at any moment!
“I know thy works, and charity,
and service, and faith,
and thy patience, and thy works. . .”
Revelation 2:19
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