If her heart had been as full of God and God's business as his, she would
not have been in the least uneasy about him. And here is the lesson of his
whole life: it was all his Father's business. The boy's mind and hands
were full of it. The man's mind and hands were full of it. And the risen
conqueror was full of it still. For the Father's business is everything,
and includes all work that is worth doing. We may say in a full grand
sense, that there is nothing but the Father and his business."

"But we have so many things to do that are not his business," said Wynnie,
with a sigh of oppression.

"Not one, my darling. If anything is not his business, you not only have
not to do it, but you ought not to do it. Your words come from the want of
spiritual sight. We cannot see the truth in common things--the will of God
in little everyday affairs, and that is how they become so irksome to us.
Show a beautiful picture, one full of quiet imagination and deep thought,
to a common-minded man; he will pass it by with some slight remark,
thinking it very ordinary and commonplace. That is because he is
commonplace. Because our minds are so commonplace, have so little of the
divine imagination in them, therefore we do not recognise the spiritual
meaning and worth, we do not perceive the beautiful will of God, in the
things required of us, though they are full of it. But if we do them we
shall thus make acquaintance with them, and come to see what is in them.
The roughest kernel amongst them has a tree of life in its heart."

"I wish he would tell me something to do," said Charlie. "Wouldn't I do
it!"

I made no reply, but waited for an opportunity which I was pretty sure was
at hand, while I carried the matter a little further.