upon the circumstances that surround us. We say, “How can I better myself? I haven’t the power or the personality,” or, “I haven’t the natural attractiveness that is necessary to making good in life.” Right here is where our faith in the Power greater than we are must be brought into play.

It was his great claim on God, on the Power greater than he was, that enabled Jesus, the human being, to become a Divine Man while still living in the flesh.

We must come to believe that the Father does dwell with us and that this creative Spirit, which is back of all things, also flows through us. God has need of us, or He would not have put us here. The Divine wishes to express through us or we would have no existence. As a matter of fact, we really have no existence of ourselves alone. It is only because we live in God that we live at all. If we think of ourselves as rooted in God and expect Divine Power to flow through us, every thought we have, and our every act will be animated by the same life and power and beauty that clothes the lily of the field. As Jesus pointed out, we would be but following the law of our own lives.

We speak about wonderful personalities and attractive people and people with dynamic thoughts and creative acts, and we admire them. And often we wonder why these people seem to be so endowed. Yet, I have never known a creative person who did not realize that he was drawing upon Something within him which was greater than he was.

I once knew the country’s leading cartoonist. The nature of his work was such that he had to create new ideas daily and draw pictures of them for a newspaper syndicate. I asked him how he accomplished so much, and he told me that he had a room with four blank walls, and the only furniture in this room was a table and a chair. When he needed ideas he would go into this room, sit down, and become quiet. When he looked around at the blank walls, there was nothing to sidetrack his attention, and he would just sit there and wait for ideas to come to him.