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ORONO WEEKLY TIMIIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5th, 191 From The Part 2 Orono United Churcb There is an old saying which has been repeated so often that it- has corne to common acccpt- ance: "Seif-preservation is nat- ure's first law." Is it? Is it true that the first law nf nature is to proteet ourselves and save our- selves? WeII, it is, provided we, remember it is a paradox. "He that loseth his life shall keep it." To keep life, to really preserve life, we must be willing to lose it, to spend it, to give it away. On thp surf'ice that surely seerns a contradicLion, *v(,t few principles have been so I-.onvncingly demo- strated ln human experience. We have to live by the low of W. FRANK REAL ESTATE LIITED Ltealter 21 Kimr St. W. Bowmanville 623-339$ Toronto 923-9174 Port Hope Office 985-45U3 For prompt, courteoU~, effici- eut service when buying or seling and for thelargest sel- ection of, properties in the area Contact Orono Area Representatives Roy Poster 983-5801 William Turansky (Kendal) 983-5420 Ray Finnie 277-2280 (Bethany) Dane Found 623-3965 Andy S'utch 983-9119 Roy Stronz 52 r 11 Bethanv expenditure; ceverything does. Wc cairnot hoard life as we hoard sugar or surplus wheat- We can- not say to our memory, "Look, memory, 1 will nced you in rnY old age, s0 I won't use you now; 1 will spare you." Or Muscles - if wc do not use our musclesthis year, we won't have them next yearý This, too, is natures law; we lose what we do not use. 110w many fine things do we lose by our over-cantious efforts to save t hem, protect them, and preserve them? You have to spend your- self to keep it'- lose it,give it away. Some years ago one of the best- known clinical psychologists in America, who had ignored religion for years, found himself coming back to it by the, rediscovery of the paradox that what Jesus said about finding life by giving it was wliat he had been trying to say for years to lis patients. Hie said bce had learned in bis own pro- fessional practice that, the self sparinf life is self -defeating, and that when people try to protect themselves by withdrawing from the risks and hurts and demands of life, they invariably diminish It can happen at sixty, it cani hap- peu at sixteen - nothing left in you, but you. Zero. the self they are trying to pro- tect. Hie told of. a young woman mnan who came to hlm asking help in the simple juatter of making friends. She complained that lier circle of friendship was shrink- ing into a narrow world of loneli- growing up in.a comfortable home ness. Probing, back- intà thé' pat- tern of lier life he discovered that she had neyer put herseif out f0 mingle with people unless she got énjoyment out of their com- pa)ny.ý She had habitually avoided dâing, anything she disliked. She had joined no church, no coin- munity enterprise 'that involved responSibility. She did not want that. When company came to ber home - -that ils, people who did not appeal to ber -- she simply kept t» her room. And so it hap- pened that, flot willing to put lier- self 'out for, others,, she found herself gradually left -out by oth- ers. How often loneliness ils self- inflicted. Not always, f0 be sure7- health factors and the aging pro- cess enter into it -- but people who by choice -live to themselves are invariab] 1y left to themselves witb nothing ln their littIe world except themselves. A mini'ster told of a home lie vîsîted. The weathering of the years had dealt rather tragically with the old house which once had known the laughter of lively life. Thce l pordli had rotted T hE Way To Live Highway 115 .- 3 Miles North of Or ono ZonngSafe Guards Hope Towniship The Deputy-reeve of Hope Town- ship, Weston Bannister, said re- cently there was no danger of a residential development on the 900 acres of land in the township which was. subdivided recently. The lots in the extreme 'north- end of the municipality, near the Cavan Township borderline were registered because of a 'loop-hole' in the Planning Act. Judge Harry Deyman of Peter- boroughi some weeks ago ruled that following a certain pi3oced- ure ln registering, a developer could circumvent subdivision con- trol. Mr. Bannister said the township council was flot concerned about the establishment of any unplan- ned housing in the area. "Our legal council has assured us that our zoning by-law will prohibit the issuing of building permhits," lie said. The land is currenitly zoncd ag- riculture. down, the outer rooxns unpainted, uncared for, had one by _one be- of disintegration was going on corne unliveable. As this process outwardly, the family kept re- treating to the inned roortis, drag- ging bits of furniture wiith them, until now, with the children grown up and zone, the old folks ived in one small room in the middle of the big old dilapidated house. Many lives get like;that as the years go by'- emptier and emptier samiler and smaller - until the only interest left iý'self-interest. Nothing is as sure or truce as this aradox - the selfilh man is the shrinkingý man; lis world grows smaller and smlaller until abdsalone. The giving man is the living mian; his worldgrows larger with his touch and every- thing multuiplies lin lis hand. The very de-p need of being needed, the need oh somthing outside our- selves, to, love, is deeely planted in our nature. The first law of the heart is to love; flot to love is to lose life. We need to love even more than we need to be'loved. 1To preserve life we need to -give it to something. When Jesus -hung on the cross lie was losiug his life. Mockers at the cross said, "lie saved oth- ers; himself lie cannot save . . They did not know that in their mocking words they were saying jthe truest thing about life. Try giving yoursell away. Do not hoard your heart, do flot spare yourself, do flot bc over- protective of yourself. Try giving yourself away, for. 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