It was only a few years ago that the vast Imperial Valley was a waste place, a desert. We did not think it wrong to build dams and change watercourses or even seed the clouds and cause them to give us rain. And see the result! The desert was made to blossom and bear fruit.

Here is something we should not overlook: God had already provided everything necessary to produce the abundant crops we now enjoy. Just as soon as we complied with the laws of God that are laws of nature, the miracle took place. We did not feel that God was testing us or trying to keep us in a state of semi-starvation because the desert had not yielded the harvest until we cultivated it. We took it for granted that it was part of the whole Divine scheme of things that when we did our part, nature would do the rest.

We might have said: Why shouldn’t God do it if we let Him? And God did do it – when we let Him. But first we have to learn how to put everything together in the right way. As a matter of fact, when we put things together rightly, everything else is automatic. The only difference between the man of ancient times and our own time is that we have learned how better to cooperate with nature.

But there are other desert places in our experience. Too often, we are unhappy, mentally unwhole. Too often we lack the good things of life. Is it going too far to say that too often we are burdened with physical diseases that need never have been? The Law of Mind is just as real as other laws in nature, so why should we not find out how It works and learn to comply with It, with the definite end in view that we shall live a fuller and happier life?

But, of course, before we can use this Law, we must believe that It really exists and that we are supposed to use It. We should not think of the Law of Mind as something beyond the realm of nature, as something apart from the whole scheme of things. Very often, in our sincere desire to do right and be right, we are a little afraid to introduce the thought that we are really rooted in pure