We live in a period of disorder, chaos, and decay. It is a period of the selfish pursuit of possessions, pleasures, and power. In this period, especially, we need the supreme equipment of life, that of self-denial. We need to forsake ourselves and walk the way of sympathy and loving service to the poor and broken ones, realising that the purpose of life is not to amass wealth and power but to be poured out in compassion to a broken world.
If I aim only at the satisfaction of my desires—however noble they are, if I work to win success or the crowd’s applause, if the purpose of my life is to accumulate things and desire pleasure out of them, I shall find not happiness but emptiness. For all these are shadow-shapes that come and go. The true joy of life is not in them but in the will of the Lord who made me and who made all things that He might give me His love through them.
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