“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” He also told us to consider the birds of the air and beasts of the field, how they live and travel about and find food and shelter by some Divine direction, which flows through them like blood flowing though our beings. And he said: “Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field…shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith!”

This really is uncommon common sense, for Jesus was merely saying this: There is a Divine Intelligence that created you. There is a Divine Law that governs all creation. There is a Presence at the center of everything, or else nothing could be here. He said that if you search deep into your own nature, you will discover that this Presence is within you as well as around you. It already knows why you are here and what you are and how you should act. It already knows what is best. But you are refusing to accept Its guidance. Every time you deny Its presence, you limit Its action through you. Every time you deny Its guidance, you limit your own ability to know what is best. Every time you deny Its presence in others, you separate yourself from them.

The whole thing is so simple and direct, yet so immediate, so close to us, that it has not seemed possible that the inspiration and the power and the direction we know we need are accessible to us. But when we stop to think the whole thing over and give it due consideration, we are compelled to admit that a Power greater than we are governs everything, and an Intelligence higher than ours guides all things.

We wish to live life in its fullness. But how true it is that mostly we rush hither and thither looking for something to heal us, looking for a power to make us whole, whether it be physically or mentally or emotionally, or whether it has to do with our affairs so that we may live successfully. We are all looking for a physician outside us.

And yet, if we were to go to a doctor, he would tell us that he is