DEAR FATHER, I would ask you what should I do when I hear of distress and sickness? What is my duty when things stare me in the face that appear wrong or sinful? I long to help, but I am not sure just how best to help those who suffer.

Dear Son, try to see this great truth. When you refuse to accept anything into your consciousness that is unlike ME, or that has no place in MY Consciousness, you are doing the greatest possible good for that other as well as your self.

If you allow the thought of sin or suffering to dwell in your consciousness, you are then being influenced chiefly by the beliefs of others. When you find yourself disturbed or concerned about such things, there is only one thing to do, and that is to turn immediately within and ask My forgiveness saying:—“Dear Father, I know this is no part of Your Consciousness and therefore I will not permit it into my consciousness, nor will I permit such a thought of another of Thy children.”

Dear One, when friends tell you of poverty, sin and fear, first of all DO NOT ALLOW YOUR INTEREST AND ATTENTION TO REST UPON SUCH TALES, for thus you, yourself, are drawn into and become involved in the very same things and conditions. By listening to and sympathizing with such stories they become a part of your consciousness and therefore a part of you. Whereas, by refusing them admittance to your world of thought, you help blot them out of the world and the experience of your friends.

It only goes back to the great truth that nothing exists in our world, or in anything or anybody in it, but what we think and believe is so. When we once change our thinking and believing, and wipe them out of consciousness so that they do not exist, they thereby disappear from our world and from our lives.

This is a very great truth and needs only to be proven through experience by changing our beliefs about anything or about anybody, and then watching what happens to that thing or person, for you will find that all that you once saw and believed to be so, will have disappeared, and according to what you now see and believe to be so, will it come into manifestation in that thing or person in very wonderful ways.

Consider further, dear Son, what it would mean to abide in the Kingdom of Heaven and to work in its consciousness. Can you realize that even on earth in your physical bodies—you can so work, and that it is possible for you to bring your minds to such full accord with your Inner Knowing that whatever you think and see would outmanifest immediately, instantly? Think what that would mean! Think of possessing that power here in this world! Whenever you need a thing and see that need, instantly it would appear before you. Would that be possible?

You know that this power is being evidenced everywhere in one way, shape or form, by many around you. How? Many have strongly felt a desire or need for something and have been surprised to find someone, some dear one, a friend, or even a stranger come forward and present them with that? You would call that coincidence and often wonder at it. But it was not a coincidence, it was just a natural outmanifestation of the Law. The need was pictured clearly in mind, and seen so clearly, that it outmanifested. The Law has wonderful ways of bringing things to manifest.

The time will soon be here when you will be able to bring instantly into manifestation the fruits of your desires; consciously creating will be so common that it will almost be unnoticed.

Is it not a fact that many are finding that those close to them are getting their thoughts, or are seeing the same things that they are seeing, oftentimes doing things that they desire to have them do? It is only an evidence of the power of Mind, and a proof that there is only One Mind and that there is no space, time or separation in That Mind. That somehow or other that Law of Mind works instantly and with powerful effect, so powerful that it brings things to us.

More and more will that response be felt from now on by you, dear Son, as you study the mind, and begin to recognize the power that is within you. As you realize the wonderful instrument you have in your mind, you will more and more practice and train and discipline it until it becomes a perfect servant. You will find that the power will be given you from within to bring this about as you more and more call upon it, recognize it and know that it will serve you.

Beloved Father, I thank Thee for these wondrous words of Truth, for this ability to know of Thee, to wait upon Thee, to receive from Thee. I thank Thee for this wonderful instrument of my mind that I know has been given me only for Thy service. Help me to dedicate it wholly to Thee so that I may serve Thee worthily, in His Name. AMEN.