LET us not match our foolish human judgment against Divine Wisdom. Let us realize always, in our daily living, that God’s Divine Perfection is the ONLY power and presence: the ONLY reality. If something seems to go radically wrong let us know that “it is the Lord,” preparing something better for us. If our most cherished hopes and ambitions come tumbling down about us, let us rejoice.

Let us climb gleefully upon the wreckage of our human plans, joyously affirming that God is making room for something vastly better than we can possibly plan for ourselves, thereby using the wreckage for a stepping-stone, rather than a stumbling-block. “The only difference between a stumbling-block and a stepping-stone is the manner in which it is used,” someone has said.

Even a moment’s clear thinking will convince us of the logical truth that that which can be tumbled down and destroyed is necessarily of human construction, since we know that the works of God cannot be undone. Every creation of God (and there is none else in Spirit and in Truth) is Eternal, Complete, Perfect.

In sheer ecstasy for our understanding of this Truth, let us clamber to the uttermost top of our mountain of wreckage—and the bigger the mountain, the higher we may climb—and shout with the martyr of old: “Glory to God for everything that happens,” rejoicing in our understanding that we are freed from slavery to our false human hopes, caring not whether we seem to succeed or to fail, being concerned only to know that we are living the TRUE CHRIST PRINCIPLE.

Let us wend our way joyfully onward and upward, giving thanks that “it is the Lord.” Let us eagerly help Him, by eliminating our personal desires, to “do with us as He wills.” Let us always abide in the SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH and pray without ceasing — “IT IS THE LORD: LET HIM DO WITH US AS HE WILL.” —E. S.