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All people of earth have cause for regrets and
cause for rejoicing. Regrets interfere with health and
shorten years. Rejoicing vitalizes the blood and quickens
the heart action. Rejoicing makes the mind brilliant as
sapolio brightens metal. Regrets dull the eyes, take the elasticity
out of the step and deplete the atmosphere. Rejoicing
quickens the step, brightens the eyes and vitalizes your
atmosphere, for "All things respond to the call of rejoicing;
all things gather where life is a song." The fact that
you have made a mistake in life or broken one or two of the
commandments may be ample cause for regrets, but rejoice that you
have realized your mistake --realized that you were on the road to
Nowhere and rejoice that you have discovered your mistake before
it was too late to retrace your steps; that is indeed cause for
rejoicing. Rejoicing is a real song of Praise, a song
everyone who awakes in the morning with a perfect body, able to
see and hear, should sing. This alone is a tremendous cause
for rejoicing, but what a blessing to awake in the morning and
realize that you are living in the U. S. A., a country not overwhelmed
with such gigantic and appalling problems as war-wrecked
Europe. This should be such cause for rejoicing that regrets
could find no lodgment in your mind.
Nothing enables man to realize and appreciate his
blessings and rejoice over them more than Spiritual
Equilibrium. Spiritual Equilibrium enables man to be
connected with material development in all walks of life, to be
interested in the advancement of man and in the progress of the
world. Spiritual Equilibrium enables man to keep his head in
times of stress --to see the golden lining of each earth cloud and
rejoice that he can see it. spiritual Equilibrium enables a
man to look upon earth's honors and riches as only stepping stones
on life's highway --to neither worship nor ignore them, but to
rejoice over the blessings they bring.
Rejoicing prevents the poison of despair produced
by regrets. The regretful person gives up when encompassed
by clouds. The joyful person endowed with spiritual
equilibrium climbs the mountain and gets above the cloud line
--the same world for both, but one is in the sunshine and one is
in the gloom. It is easy to stay in the valley. It is an
effort to climb the mountains, but it is worth the effort.
In the valley there may be marshes to retard our
steps. There are no marshes on the mountains.
The air may be foul in the valley, but on the Mount of Rejoicing
the air is pure. You can remain in your room and c limb
these mountains. It has been done in prison.
Christ said to the thief on the cross "This
day shalt thou be with me in Paradise." The thief only
turned to Truth, was on the mountain-top of rejoicing and gained
Paradise. If we turn to Truth, we can also rejoice that we
have found Paradise, but without the pain of the cross to bear.
Blessed are those who can see the way, and not be
forced to be crucified to find it. Spiritual Equilibrium
enables you to avoid the cross, to "Live and Grow
Young."
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