knew that we are immortal beings, it is also true that he told us that we should live as though this future state was already here. He taught that there is a way of life, which, while it prepares us for an expansion of our being beyond the grave, also includes the expansion of our being while we are here in this world. He linked earth with heaven, time with eternity, and the now with the hereafter.

Nothing is wrong with Life Itself. What seems to be wrong is the way we are using It. Jesus knew what he was talking about when he said that we should relearn to have the simple faith and trust with which we were born, and then everything will be well with us.

Everything would be all right if we understood it. Life is for us even though we used the laws of nature wrongly. The beginning of real wisdom, the starting point of really knowing how to live, is to realize that every man’s experience emanates from himself, while his life emanates from God; and that every person has the power within himself to reconstruct his thinking in such a manner that peace of mind, happiness, and joy in living will follow.

The simplest propositions are always the most difficult to understand, and often that which is the most obvious completely eludes us. We are too apt to seek roundabout methods and pathways; too apt to build up obstructions and barriers that nature has never put in our way and really exists only in our own minds. But these mental reactions we can control because we created them. What we have made, we can unmake; what we have created, we can re-create. If God, who is the final arbiter of all human fate, has seen fit to put us here, we may be certain that it was for the purpose of expressing life to the full.

We may be certain that we were intended to be happy. We may be sure that everything of a discordant nature in our lives has been introduced and was never placed there by the Divine Will; it is of our own creation. Not that you and I, as individuals, thought up or planned all the evil in the world; rather, we suffer from a gradual accumulation of the ages.