OPPORTUNITY

It is strange how seldom people can judge the psychological moment to reach forth their hands and grasp what they desire. How often does the gardener in the field of life pick the rose before it has really opened or just a little too late, when it has already commenced to fade and drop its petals,—but how divinely fortunate is the one who plucks it just at the right moment and, as a reward, not only has the rose, but very often with it a tiny, glistening, jewelled drop of dew! We cannot say that this is merely chance, but rather a God-like bit of intuition that is wound about and entwined in some souls. Too often in our feebleness we say opportunity makes us what we are; and we do not realize our strength or we should say that we will make opportunity for that which we wish to be! I feel that opportunity is something which grows often and plentifully in the lives of some but, like the grass beneath our feet, it is very seldom cultivated and springs up noiselessly and silently so that we do not notice it. Most of us, when we wish to do something very much or attain a great desire, expect the moment for fulfillment to come heralded with blasts of trumpets—and when it does not come that way, but through an unpretentious medium, we cannot grasp its significance; and so we pass it by.... The wise soul is he who expects and seeks opportunity in all places—not graspingly or shrewdly, but silently and with great faith; and who knows and comprehends the law that not always must we go out to seek it, but perhaps, while merely contemplating the stars, will we gain force—and so it will come to us. Not too obviously, perhaps, but with an interior illumination that will give us the Vision and show us the path onward.