'Try it if you are discouraged

Try it if you are discouraged

There was a woman who had become embittered by a long experience of sickness and of injustice and wrong , until she was shut up in a prison of hopelessness . Then, by reason of the death of a relative, a little motherless child was brought to her door. The door was opened most reluctantly at first; the child was not warmly welcomed.

Yet when she was received, at once the dreary home began to grow brighter. The woman's narrow heart began to be enlarged. Other human needs came and were not turned away. In blessing others, the woman was blessed herself. Today there is no happier home than hers.

Try it if you are discouraged . Begin to serve those who need your love and ministry. Encourage some other disheartened one — and your own discouragement will pass away. Brighten another's lonely lot — and your own will be brightened.

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