Herein is love–to daily sacrifice
The thing that to the bosom closest lies,
To mutely bear reproach and suffer wrong,
Nor lift the voice to show where both belong;
Nay now, nor tell it e’en to God above,–
Herein is love, indeed; herein is love.
Life’s best school is living with people. It is there we learn our best lessons. Some one says, “It is better to live with others even at the cost of considerable jarring and friction than to live in undisturbed quiet alone.” It is not ideally the easy way. It means ofttimes hurts, wrongs, injustices, many a wounding, many a heartache, many a pang. It requires self forgetfulness, self restraint, the giving up of one’s rights and many times, the overlooking of unkindnesses and thoughtlessnesses, the quiet enduring the things that it would seem no one should be required to endure from another. Nevertheless, it is immeasurably better to live with people, though it is not easy, than to live alone.
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