CONTAINING quotations from our replies to those writing us for help in their Spiritual problems.

Each day at 12 o’clock noon, we take the names of those asking for such help in the Silence of the Spirit, and “Speak the Word” for them. Many hundreds have testified to receiving the blessings of such ministry.

REGARDING your problem—that which eludes you, did you ever study yourself to learn what such secret love is and from what it springs? Undoubtedly it has come into your life and is permitted by your Loving Father for a wise and helpful purpose. And if you will turn to and wait upon Him in a true desire to please only Him, concerned not at all about self, but only that you are doing what He wants you to do, you will soon be shown the purpose of this love.

Study carefully all that is stated in Papers 7 and 8 as well as the other truths we sent you, and gradually understanding will unfold and you will not be concerned about anything other than finding the Source of Love within yourself, waiting upon It and serving It only.

Just know that as long as you look without to some other personality for love—true love, you will always be disappointed; for it is self only that wants love and to be loved. The only real love must come from within and the only real Lover is within—the Christ—your own Divine Self. Until you find and know Him and His Love, you will never be satisfied and will still think you can gain that satisfaction in a human love.

REGARDING the seeming situation where, because of your trust in people you fall a victim to dishonesty and trickery, we would say that situation need not exist. Things in the outer are only what you believe are so, as you have learned in the Way Out.

Therefore, cleanse your mind at once of all those beliefs, of what the astrologer told you, and of your faith in planets, or in anything but God’s Love. Think you that God’s Love has any part in such negative things and that He intends for you other than perfect harmony and happiness? Try to realize, dear friend, that God Himself is living in your body, is constantly expressing Himself in and through you; for you have no other life, consciousness or nature than His, and you could not be, if this were not so. Then why not turn within to Him, loving, trusting and believing in Him and His Love for you, and that only harmony, health and happiness is His portion for you. If you truly thus trust Him, it will be so.

YOUR remarks about present conditions noted.

The thing that interests us the most these days is how the newspapers get filled with the threats of dire happenings, and the people are led to expect war and trouble everywhere; and then something happens and it proves a false alarm, the disputants get together and iron out the difficulty, and the trouble vanishes.

Let us see this resulting in every difficulty that confronts the world from now on. If we hold steadfast to the truth that good and God are back of everything and everybody, and EXPECT that good to outmanifest, refusing to admit anything else is possible, can you not see that good must come forth? That is the Law. Of course, it is necessary that the two sides of every difficulty be brought thus fully into the open, so that they can be clearly seen by everyone; and usually when that is done, the common sense of men will clear away the personal and selfish fears, suspicions, and objections that prevent their getting together. Can you not see how that is now happening everywhere and in a way that never was before?

Well, it must be, because we are in the King’s Chamber, and all of the former pressure being released, the souls of men are now free to express themselves, and can no longer be hindered by the selfishness of the world. Is this not a glorious situation? Let us praise God that it is so.

WE CAN say that you should not allow yourself to be concerned over the seeming failure of your former marriage, for whatever happened was best at the time. Try to realize that your Loving Father never permits you to do anything that is not good for you, although seemingly trouble, inharmony, and suffering results from it. But as all suffering is a purifying process by which many things in one’s nature are burned away and the soul is freed to listen and be guided by the Loving Father within, you can easily see that after such experience you are much wiser and better able to judge and to understand His will and way for you.

And remember, this applies to both parties. The Father is in your former husband just as much as He is in you, and is watching over, loving and caring for him even as He is for you; so that he will come through this experience chastened, strengthened, and, let us hope, freed for the things his higher nature has intended for him from the beginning.

As to the present situation this new love, try to realize that it also is an experience that contains a needed lesson. The lesson may be and probably is what you at present cannot understand, but if you do trust your Loving Father and have placed all in His hands, concerned only that you are pleasing Him, you may be sure that He will lead you out of it into the joy and blessing that He has waiting for you.