Thoughts to Build On

and ye shall find." For it is a Law of Life that when Fate
closes one door, Faith opens another.
And what is beckoning to you beyond the Door
of Faith? There is an ACTIVITY in which you can lose
your SELF -in a cause of your own choosing, an activity
which will occupy your thoughts and energies, and which
is bigger than you and, therefore, bigger than any feeling
of tragedy which may still possess you.
You must seek your own channel of ACTIV-
ITY ... find your own cause ... artd then put your entire
SELF into it, Jeaving no part of YOU behind to relive,
again and again, the regret, the remorse, the grief of a
tragedy you cannot now undo. You must find the motiva-
tion to ACT -to WORK-physically and mentally, to help
others, thus losing your in-growing SELF -consciousness
of tragedy by replacing it with an out-going OTHERS-
consciousness of helpfulness.
Hard physical and mental WORK (the more
constructive and worthwhile, the better) will relieve and
replace emotional tension, anxiety and grief, and will pro-
vide the healthful exhaustion which assures relaxing rest
in the satisfying glow of accomplishment. The ACTIVITY
you choose must be more than an occupation-it must be
a dedication.
So the total: A + A + A + A: (1) ADMIT,
(2) ACCEPT, (3) ADAPT, and (4) ACT ... the infall-
ible combination which, used in that order, will reveal
the Door of Faith through which you can walk confidently
into a new life '... serene and assured-busy with the
present, secure in the knowledge that you can accept and