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kind of desperation, they turn to God and try to find some sort of comfort in believing that sometime, somewhere, they will get what they want and be happy. Thenceforth their lives are patient and submissive, but they are destitute of any real joy.

This same Nazarene, to whom we always return because to us he is the best-known teacher and demonstrator of Truth, spent nearly three years teaching the people --- the common everyday people like you and me, who wanted, just as we do, food and rent and clothing, money, friends, and love --- to love their enemies and to do good to those who persecuted them, to resist not evil in any way but to give double to anyone who tried to get what belonged to them, to cease from all anxiety regarding the things they needed because "your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things" (Mt. 6:32).

And then in talking one day, he said, "I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete" On. 15:11). And he continued, "The Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name" On. 15:16). "Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.... I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf; for the Father himself loves you" On. 16:24, 26-27). We have further learned that God is the total of all the good in the universe and that there is in the mind which is God a perpetual