October 9

October 9 – AM           Page 65-66, How It Works, Chapter 5

We went back through our lives.  Nothing counted but thoroughness and honesty.  When we were finished we considered it carefully.  The first thing apparent was that this world and its people were often quite wrong.  To conclude that others were wrong was as far as most of us ever got.  The usual outcome was that people continued to wrong us and we stayed sore.  Sometimes it was remorse and then we were sore at ourselves.  But the more we fought and tried to have our own way, the worse matters got.  As in war, the victor only seemed to win.  Our moments of triumph were short-lived.

October 9 – PM          Page 81-82, Into Action, Chapter 6

Our design for living is not a one-way street.  It is as good for the wife as for the husband.  If we can forget, so can she.  It is better, however, that one does not needlessly name a person upon whom she can vent jealousy.
Perhaps there are some cases where the utmost frankness is demanded.  No outsider can appraise such an intimate situation.  It may be that both will decide that the way of good sense and loving kindness is to let by-gones be by-gones.  Each might pray about it, having the other one’s happiness uppermost in mind.  Keep it always in sight that we are dealing with that most terrible human emotion—jealousy.  Good generalship may decide that the problem be attacked on the flank rather than risk a face-to-face combat.