Do you not think it so yourself, now that your passion has had time to cool ?" "Yes, ma'am," replied Lulu, again hanging her head and blushing.

"I don't mean to behave so any more." Then after a moment's silence, "Aunt Elsie, I don't believe anybody has any idea how hard it is for me to be good." "Don't you think other people find it hard, too, my poor child ?" Elsie asked gently.

"They also have evil natures." "I'm sure," said Lulu, "that Max and Grace don't have half as hard work to be patient and sweet-tempered as I do.

I often wish I'd been made good like Grace; and I don't see why I wasn't.

And there's Rosie; she doesn't ever seem to want to be wilful, or tempted at all to get into a passion." "Perhaps, Lulu, she is as strongly tempted to some other sin as you are to wilfulness and passion, and perhaps falls before temptation as often.
We cannot read each other's hearts; one cannot know how much another resists--can only see the failures and not the struggles to avoid them.
"But how comforting to know that God, our heavenly Father, sees and knows it all; that He pities our weakness and proneness to sin! How precious are His promises of help in time of trial, if we look to Him for it, at the same time using all our own strength in the struggle!" "I never thought about different people having different temptations," remarked Lulu, thoughtfully.