====== The Inner Life ======
== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | JANUARY 1934 ==
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and fix them wholly on God and His concerns, thus giving Him all your faith and trust, you will soon see not only your material problems, but the inharmonies of your body and of everything else disappear, and you will be free from all that is now troubling you. But you will have to prove this by doing what you have been shown.

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=== WHEN SELF SURRENDERS ===
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Your wonderful letter received, and it makes us very happy to learn how finely you have been shown the Father’s Love for you—that He has loved you from the beginning, has watched over you and put you through all of these experiences solely in order to bring you to a complete surrender of self. You have seen how, when you finally came to the extreme limit of your own efforts and really gave yourself into His hands, that strange calm fell upon you, lifting you in consciousness far above it all, permitting you to look down upon these things that seemed so terribly hard to bear, and to see them for what they are—mere illusions of the mortal mind, creations of that fearful, worrying, frantic self, having no real importance whatever to one in that Higher Consciousness.

Do you know what That Consciousness is? You were simply brought within for the moment into the Consciousness of that other “Being” or Self, Whom you were permitted to see and realize is your TRUE Self; and in that moment He enabled you to see with His eyes and to know with His understanding what He has been trying to show you these many months.

You ask whether all these things you tell us do not sound crazy? Why, dear friend, it is what we have been trying to show you these months to before the blessings you seek can possibly come into expression. Go back over our recent letters and read them again in the light of your present understanding, and see if we have not been pointing out this very thing and promising you it would surely result if you would but let go and surrender all, so that God could have His chance!

Now that you know, try to get back into that Consciousness and to stay in it continually, in that calm serene KNOWING that He will take care of us—is taking care of—everything, and will do it just as easily as He brought about the things that seem to you so wonderful. There is nothing He cannot and will not do, when you keep your mind cleansed of all those negative thoughts and concerns about your petty little personal self.
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