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Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.| -- PROVERBS iii.13-26.
In the ways of the Lord I shall have feasts of |pleasantness.| But not always at the beginning of the ways. Sometimes my faith is called upon to take a very unattractive road, and nothing welcomes me of fascination and delight. But here is a law of the spiritual life. The exercised faith intensifies my spiritual senses, and hidden things become manifest to my soul -- hidden beauties, hidden sounds, hidden scents! Faith adds a mysterious |plus| to my powers, and |all things become new.|
And in the ways of the Lord I shall also find the gracious gift of peace. Not that the road will be always smooth, but that I may be always calm. I can be unperturbed when |all around tumultuous seems.| I can journey in holy serenity, because the Lord of the road is with me. For peace consists, not in friendliness of circumstances, but in friendship with the Lord.