WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?

THERE is war for the warlike. There is peace for the peaceful. There is hope for the hopeful. There is faith for the faithful. There is plenty for the plentiful. There is happiness for the joyful. There is a song for the singer; there is love for the lover ; there is God for the worshiper. There is a sun for children of the day and a cloud for children of the night. For him who would be rich, there is riches ; and he who expects nothing shall equally be blessed by the law, for verily his faith shall have its reward. "He sends his sun and his rain upon the just and the unjust, the evil and the good.

Each of us makes his own sunrise and his own sunset. Each soars or crawls as his thought decrees. He takes the wings of the morning and mounts to Pleiades, or the feet of the mole and burrows in the earth. He walks uprightly fearing no man or meekly bends before every pretender to his throne. He goes forth with fear and meets his fate, or with courage and is hailed as conqueror. He laughs and the world laughs with him ; he weeps and all the world's in tears.

Life is a comedy to the optimist and a tragedy to the pessimist. No loving heart but finds its mate. No hostile heart but finds its enemy. No fear but finds its devil ; no faith but finds its God.

It is of the very nature of life and mind that every thought is matched by reality in two directions: it exists as an eternal possibility in the universal, or else we could not think it: it must come forth into form, for every thought expresses in its individual way. Clearness of thought, which is the image and persistency of the thought, which is faith, alone decree when and how completely it shall come. Every thought becomes a thing, but whether it is vital or still-born is governed by your faith.

This is the great inspiration of the new-old message of the Christ-conscious : you cannot conceive a desire but that it is matched by reality. The inventor who fashions an instrument never before seen, the sculptor who chisels a form never before conceived, are merely bringing into expression ideas that lie latent in the Mind of the Infinite. You cannot want anything but God wants it for you : you cannot expect anything but that that thing can and will come to you, IF YOU EXPECT IT ENOUGH.

What do you want! What do you expect? These are the decisive factors in the living of your life. Behind you lie the broken things of yesterday. Forget them. Before you is dawn and the day. What shall come forth out of the unrolled parchment of the future * It is for you to decide. You hold tomorrow in the hollow of your hand. God is on your side. Life is on your side. Eternity is on your side ; Life never ends. All things are possible to him that believes. "Only have faith; and thy faith shall save thee." Believe, believe! EXPECT, EXPECT!!

How to Develop

THE FAITH THAT HEALS
By
Fenwicke L(indsay) Holmes,
Los Angeles, Cal., 1919