back to the place of childlike confidence in living and then, as it were, grow into adulthood all over again, ever keeping this thought in mind: “The Spirit is daily flowing through me into action. It is daily projecting Itself through me in my relations with others. The Wisdom of the Spirit is guiding me. The Power of the Spirit is guarding me. The Presence of the Spirit goes before me and makes perfect my way.”

Since we cannot live by ourselves alone, we must maintain the same attitude toward others. We must come to realize that God is incarnated in everyone. This means that the God we see in others is the same God we recognize in ourselves. If this is what we are seeing, this is what we shall experience.

The person whom we call the hardheaded realist might exclaim that this is just a lot of empty idealism, just a lot of wistful wishing. I would like to ask this person a very simple question: Where have you been leading us? Have you not led us to a place where the trail runs out and stops? Have you not led us up a canyon where the pathway runs into solid granite? Has your pathway led us to the mountaintops where the perennial snows forever melt and the brooks and the rivers flow down to refresh the valleys and quench the thirst of the desert and cause the waste places to bloom and bear fruit?

No, I am not concerned with the ideas of the hardheaded realist. I am aware that those too few people to whom the world must look for inspiration were more realistic than anyone else because they discovered that for which the whole world seeks – just simple peace of mind, just plain joy in living, just the assurance that everything is not a mistake. They have known that the Power back of all things will do all things well, if we let it.

There is no question but that the world will have to discover its Source. There is no doubt but that we must give God a chance. But to you and to me, it will forever remain true that our reactions to life are in our own mind, what we see is in our own eye, and what we experience is our own creation.