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027 - Destiny · Heart of the New Thought

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty six of the Heart of the New Thought
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  Speaker 1: by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Destiny, never say that you wish your situation
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  Speaker 1: were different, Never wish you had some other person's life
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  Speaker 1: or troubles or worries except your own as a working
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  Speaker 1: basis the best for you. Then go ahead and change
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  Speaker 1: whatever displeases you. Remember you are the maker and molder
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  Speaker 1: of your own destiny. You do not recall the fact,
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  Speaker 1: but you wrote about the present conditions of your destiny
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  Speaker 1: in former incarnations. Even if you do not believe this,
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  Speaker 1: you must acknowledge that you are here and that the
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  Speaker 1: situation in which you find yourself seems to be inevitable
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  Speaker 1: for the present, But it is not inevitable for the future.
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  Speaker 1: Unless you lie down in the furrow and wine and
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  Speaker 1: wish you were a millionaire or a genius, and rail
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  Speaker 1: at the partiality of providence. There is no partiality in
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  Speaker 1: the universe. The whole scheme is well balanced. If you
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  Speaker 1: were allowed to change lots with anyone on the faith
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  Speaker 1: of the earth, you would complain and find fault in
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  Speaker 1: a short time. One of our best known millionaires own
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  Speaker 1: to opulence complains that he has been robbed of the
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  Speaker 1: privilege of making his own fortune. He is no happier
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  Speaker 1: than you. His confession betrays his weakness of character, just
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  Speaker 1: as your repining and fault finding betrays yours. The real
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  Speaker 1: worthwhile character thanks God for its destiny, and says, I
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  Speaker 1: will show the world what I can't do with my life.
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  Speaker 1: Not long ago there was a great trotting race at
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  Speaker 1: Brighton Beach. The blind conqueror Rhythmic, won five consecutive races.
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  Speaker 1: Think of it. He did not, like a mortal man,
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  Speaker 1: shrink back and say, I'm blind. That is a terrible destiny.
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  Speaker 1: I am cursed of God. I will not try to
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  Speaker 1: win the race. He just trusted the hand of the
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  Speaker 1: master at the reins, did his best, and won the
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  Speaker 1: honors of the season. We are all blind racers on
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  Speaker 1: the track of earth. The king, the millionaire, the statesman,
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  Speaker 1: the lawmaker, the beggar, the laborer, the cripple. We are
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  Speaker 1: all in the dark. The only thing is to trust
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  Speaker 1: the hand of the master and do our best. Believe
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  Speaker 1: your position is the right starting point. For you merely
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  Speaker 1: the starting point. It is the shapeless block of stone
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  Speaker 1: from which you are to fashion the perfect statue, or
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  Speaker 1: it is the mere mud from which you are to
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  Speaker 1: mold the clay image, and later that is to be
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  Speaker 1: put into enduring marble. What is uglier or more unattractive
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  Speaker 1: than mud, Yet think of the glorious conceptions which it imprisons.
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  Speaker 1: Take the mud of your present environment and thank God
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  Speaker 1: for it, and make the image of the future you desire.
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  Speaker 1: You can do it, you must do it. You will
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  Speaker 1: do it. End of Section twenty six