What is the use of trying?

Consider this—

During your life on this little plane, perchance, you fail your greater self oh-so-often. Inevitably, sorrow, and the feeling of remorse come, and you exclaim within yourself—

What is the use of trying; what is the use of striving?

In the pang, which follows a weakness, a failure, a betrayal of your real self, so retrievement is taking place. 

Though you may sin, as the world calls it, a thousand times over, those sins will be retrieved because Christ said—

I am the Saviour of the world, and in the Father's Mind, there is no one who is excluded from that phrase.

God is Love, so you have been taught. If God is a God of Love, how can all the tragedies of physical life take place?

The greatest tragedy of all, which includes all the lesser tragedies of life on this little plane, is misunderstanding the Mind of Love.

What a man sows, that shall he reap—

What a man sows, that must he reap. 

Plant in that spot that which will kill the evil—

The only way to eradicate that which spoils the garden of the mind is to sow therein the good thought, the pure thought, and this can be done only by service to others.

You have been taught much concerning punishment, concerning the vengeance of God.

Retribution has no place in the Mind of Love. 

But before the spirit can free itself from its burdens, before it can be free from its many afflictions, that which has been done to injure others must be made good, must be replaced by the simple rule given by The Divine—

Serve your neighbour, and in serving your neighbours, you prove your love for God.

Here is your chance, here is the God-given opportunity to plant, side by side with the rank weed, that flower, which represents faith and trust in God.