LIFE, PLEASANT FOR YOU
SOMEHOW.
By G.W.S.Ware.
May,23,1939.
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You walk and talk and write and cite, and work–not shirk, to run for fun with
brothers and others, for right and might, to make or break; or kick or lick the toes of
foes, with temper or whimper, of cares and fares, as life when rife, and
found–rebound to lift so swift; your head sees red so true and through, where time
will find, life pleasant for you somehow.
I have been writing, off and on, since 1870. It has been free to others like air and
water but not so abundant and essential. If I had the money writing has cost me, I would
have that much more than I have been paid for it. Editors, have been, and are, wonderfully
kind to me in feeding their waste baskets with my mental eruptions. Never fall out with an
editor because of this, for if you do, it shows you cannot trim your own mind, and that
you lack sympathy for them, for their sins, too, are many and troubles more.
Life, as a whole, will have many pleasant places to all who try to make pleasant places
for God to live in, in this world. Believe it or not; every human being gets what he gives
God in this world. No one can change this, or prevent it, no more than he can prevent the
Sun from rising, the air to move, or stars to shine. Men can rebel against this rule of
God, and dodge behind their unbelief to feel secure, to seek their own pleasure, and lose
it here and hereafter.
"If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy
day; and call the sabbath a delight, and the holy of Jehovah honorable; and shall honor
it, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own
words: then shalt thou delight thyself in Jehovah; and I will make thee to ride on the
high places of the earth." (Isaiah 58:13,14). "The sabbath was made for man, and
not man for the sabbath." Mrk. 2:27.
Give God pleasure, and life will be pleasant for you.
