ACCEPTING THE UNIVERSE 



is a vital process. Man's course is a right line, Na- 

 ture's is a circle. Man aims to cut out the waste, 

 the pain, the failures. How does Nature trim her 

 trees or renew her forests or weed her gardens? Only 

 by a survival of the fittest or the luckiest. Every 

 branch that dies and decays and falls from the tree 

 does so at the risk of the health and well-being of 

 the whole tree. Often the decayed branch leaves a 

 hole that in time causes the death of the tree. See 

 how evenly the pine and spruce and hemlock and 

 oak forests get planted by Nature's haphazard 

 method, but think of the time involved! But what 

 is time to the Eternal? Man cuts out the time and 

 gets his forest quickly. He trims his wood and 

 avoids the danger of delays and decaying wood. He 

 selects such plants for his garden as he desires, and 

 avoids the dangers of the struggle to survive. He 

 takes the side of the weak against the strong, but 

 Nature favors only the strong. 



The rain falls upon the just and the unjust. The 

 weather goes its way irrespective of you and me. 

 Storm, tempest, frost, drought, sunshine, are no 

 respecters of persons. The seasons came and went 

 before man appeared, just as they do now. The 

 Eternal never takes sides as man takes sides, but 

 because it does not, should we lose faith? The 

 Eternal takes sides as the sun takes sides, and not 

 otherwise. The light shines for all. Providence is a 

 universal beneficence. The clouds go their way. The 



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