best? For am I not preparing you so that I can enter and be wholly My Self in you?

“Then think, would I permit any real harm or hardship to come to you? You may think what you are now facing is a hardship and most harmful; but who knows best what discipline of mind or heart you still need and what will best develop your Spiritual strength and fitness for what lies ahead?

“For remember, everything you do I cause or permit and enable you to do—I, abiding within your soul, which is within your mind, which is within your body—all belonging to and expressing Me only.

“That which is troubling you and which seems so desperate, is perhaps only a final trial and cleansing necessary to rid you of all remaining qualities of self—of all its fears and doubts and personal concerns that are hindering My taking complete charge and possession of mind and heart for My perfect use. Can you not see that I cannot enable them—when they are so filled and stirred with such thoughts and feelings—to recognize and thus to help Me outmanifest the good and the purpose I have intended from the beginning?

“Then let go, My child, and turn all over to Me, your Self, your God within you—not to some God apart or way off from you. For I, your Self, am here directing all, caring for all, doing all, and have been waiting so long for you to realize this, to give Me full charge and thus to co-operate with Me in what I purpose for you.

“All you have to do is to realize that I will permit only that to manifest which is for your greatest good. For remember I see and know what is that good and have arranged