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There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandal wood out of which to carve a Madonna. At last he was about to give up in despair, leaving the vision of his life unrealized, when in a dream he was bidden to shape the figure from a block of oak wood which was destined for the fire. Obeying the command, he produced from the log of common firewood a masterpiece.
In like manner people wait for great and brilliant opportunities for doing the good things, the beautiful things, of which they dream, while through all the common days the very opportunities they require for such deeds lie close to them, in the simplest and most familiar passing events. They wait to find sandal wood out of which to carve Madonnas, while far more lovely Madonnas than they dream of are hidden in the common logs of oak which they burn in the open fireplace or spurn with their feet in the wood yard.