ant to be, what you want to do, THEN
ACTUALIZE IT. Get above doubts. Do not wait to be well, to be happy,
to be rich, all of these will be added unto you. Climb out of your
prison of doubts, worries, fears. Begin where you are. Let your Will
create, even as God creates. "He that believeth shall not perish,
shall not abide in darkness, shall have the light of life, shall have
everlasting life; all things are possible to him that believeth." Come
down out of the gallery of supine hero worshippers, get into the arena
and be the hero. Quit the drivel of matinee idol longing, and get
onto the stage of life and get the bouquets for yourself. The world is
waiting to ring up the curtain for your star part in life.
=YOU CAN WORK MIRACLES=: A miracle is a wonder, a marvel, a
supernatural occurrence, a result obtained by suspension of natural
processes. You can do that any day. The miracle is that so few do it.
You know Ibsen's play, "The Doll House." How the wife forged a note,
raised the money to send her husband to regain his health. How he did
regain it, returned to great prominence and wealth as a banker. Then
the blackmailer threatened to reveal the crime. How the husband rushed
to his wife in anger that she should have done such a thing, that it
meant ruin to him in his high position. How the wife replied: "Why, I
expected the miracle. That you would save me as I saved you. That you
would say that you did it." If he only had, what a marvelous, what a
wonderful, what a supernatural thing it would have been. Christ made
whole and useful a withered hand. People say, "O, that I could do so
wonderful a thing." Well, why don't you. See the withered hands around
you. A young woman with a beautiful voice, but no means to cultivate
it. You have a thousand or so in the bank? You can save that voice to
a world that needs song. A young man with a fine mind, helpless to go
thru college, you have means to give that mind to a world in power
and usefulness. The natural thing is for you not to do it, the
supernatural, the miracle, is that you are divine enough to do it. A
man, a woman, is forsaken, friendless, cruelly judged by the world,
their goodness blasted, their spirit crushed, their hearts bleeding,
their lives made useless, withered. The natural thing is to avoid
such, stand aloof, be quite scornfully indifferent. The miracle would
happen if you went to them, lifted them up, restored them to society.
I have said avoid useless peo
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