The Price You Pay

The Creator sells us good things at the price of labor, effort, drudgery, persistence, and renouncement.

We pay for our high ideals, sometimes, with great loneliness.

We pay for life itself in effort to sustain it, greater effort to train it into worthwhile channels, in unremitting effort to keep it there.

We pay for our inevitable sorrow and losses and errors sometimes with anger and denunciation, sometimes with endurance and stoic quiet, or best with tender and hopeful resignation.

But whatever coin we give we know at least that nothing may be had for nothing.

What do we most desire to buy? Are we able and willing to pay the price?

If we choose to buy pleasure and ease and self-indulgence, somehow we must scrape together the purchase price. We may not eat our cake and have it too.

Haven't you noticed what a high price those pay in the end, who drift through life, trusting to get the rewards of labor and escape making payments?

On one occasion, a lady said to a famous violinist: "I would give half my life to be able to play like you do."

"That madam," he replied, "is exactly what I have given to do it."

~Author Unknown~
Submitted by: Harry Updegraff, Jr.

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