g, the unreasonable insistence on
its own way of kicking, dust-raising self-will at the back of the mind.

A quiet will, a will that can remain quiet through all emergencies, is
not a self-will. It is the self that raises the dust--the self that
wants, and strains to get its own way, and turns and twists and writhes
if it does not get its own way.

God's will is quiet. We see it in the growth of the trees and the
flowers. We see it in the movement of the planets of the Universe. We
see God's mind in the wonderful laws of natural science. Most of all we
see and feel, when we get quiet ourselves, God's love in every thing
and every one.

If we want the dust laid, we must work to get our bodies quiet. We must
drop all that interferes with quiet in our minds, and we must give up
wanting our own way. We must believe that God's way is immeasurably
beyond us and that if we work quietly to obey Him, He will reveal to us
His way in so far as we need to know it, and will prepare us for and
guide us to His uses.

The most perfect example we have of a quiet mind in a quiet body,
guided by the Divine Will, is in the character of the Lord Jesus
Christ. As we study His words and His works, we realize the power and
the delicacy of His human life, and we realize--as far as we are
capable of realizing--the absolute clearness of the atmosphere about
Him. We see and feel that atmosphere to be full of quiet--Divine Human
Love.

There is no suffering, no temptation, that any man or woman ever had or
ever will have that He did not meet in Himself and conquer. Therefore,
if we mean to begin the work in ourselves of finding the quiet which
will lay our own dust from the very first, if we have the end in our
minds of truer obedience and loving trust, we can, even in the simple
beginning of learning to do nothing quietly, find an essence of life
which eventually we will learn always to recognize and to love, and to
know that it is not ourselves, but it is from the Heavenly Father of
ourselves.

Some of us cannot get that motive to begin with; some of us will, if we
begin at all, work only for relief, or because we recognize that there
is more power without dust than with it, but no one of us is ever safe
from clouds of dust unless at the back of all our work there is the
desire to give up all self-will for the sake of obeying and of trusting
the Divine Will more and more perfectly as time goes on. If we are
content to work thoroughly and