reaching back to the Divine Life, which sustains us. And meditation opens up an avenue in our mind for the outflow of this Life. Remember, we are talking about affirmative prayer, for there should be nothing negative in our communion with God. It should always be affirmative. We should never say that God cannot or will not, but always that God can and will and does.

As we meditate on these thoughts, we should seek to make them real until nothing in us contradicts the Divine fact. We cannot doubt that we are put here to express Life. Jesus said: "... I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” Jesus was no crepe hanger. He was a “jubilant and a beholding soul”, who knew every moment that God was with him and for him, and he continually relied on his invisible Source. Jesus, more than anyone else we know of, actually believed that spiritual forces existed, and more than anyone else, he recognized their presence and accepted their power.

Probably we shall have to do some work with ourselves along this line. We shall have to train our minds to have faith and confidence in the good, the enduring, and the true. After having cleared all doubt from our consciousness, we must learn daily to affirm that all the Presence and all the Power – all the Life that there is – is in us and for us and with us.

There is one more thing we certainly should not forget to add: The higher forces of life always work constructively. When we use them constructively, there seems to be no limit to their possibility. But the moment we begin to use them destructively, they appear to block themselves. This seems to be the only condition that the Divine has laid down which might be considered limiting. But it really is not limiting at all. We could not expect to use the Law of Mind for evil purposes, nor could we expect through hate to generate love. Nor could we hope for God to give us that which we refuse to pass on to others. These are the only conditions Jesus laid down when he told us that we would always receive if we