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The hunger that we feel is but the prompting of the Divine within us, which longs with an infinite longing to fill us. It is but one side of the law of demand and supply, the other side of which is unchangeably, unfailingly, the promise: "Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours" (Mk. 11:24). The supply is always equal to the demand, but there must first be a demand before supply is of use.

There is, attainable by us, a place where we can see that our doing can cease, because we realize that Spirit is the fulfillment of all of our desires. We simply get still and know that all things whatever we desire are ours already, and this knowing it, or recognizing it, has power to bring the invisible God (or good) --- the innermost substance of all things --- forth into just the visible form of good that we want.

But in order to attain this place of power, we must take the preliminary steps, faithfully, earnestly, trustingly, though these steps at first glance seem to us as useless and as empty as do the ceremonial forms and religious observances of the ritualistic churchman.

To affirm anything is to assert positively that it is so, even in the face of all contrary evidence. We may not be able to see how, by our simply affirming a thing to be true, a thing that to all human reasoning