Everything is beautiful in its time

"He has made everything beautiful in its time." Ecclesiastes 3:11

Everything is beautiful in its time — but out of time, the loveliest acts lose much of their loveliness.

The art of true living, therefore, consists largely in doing always the duty which belongs to the moment. But how to know what is the duty of each moment, is a question which to many is full of perplexity.

Yet it would be easy, if our obedience were but more simple.

We have but to take the duty that comes next to our hand — that which the moment brings.

Our duty is never some faraway thing.

The trouble is, that we complicate the question of duty for ourselves, by our way of looking at life, and then get our feet entangled in the meshes which our own hands have woven.

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