If you are in doubt as to what to do, ask for guidance, knowing that
there is always an answer, and you will receive it. Follow the lead that
comes to you in the silence of your soul. It speaks to you in peace.
- Drifting into divorce
Recently a young couple, married for only a few months, was
seeking a divorce. I discovered that the young man had a constant fear
that his wife would leave him. He expected rejec-tion, and he believed
that she would be unfaithful. These thoughts haunted his mind, and
became an obsession with him. His mental attitude was one of
separation and suspicion. She felt unresponsive to him; it was his own
feeling or atmosphere of loss and separation operating through them.
This brought about a condition or action in accordance with the
mental pat-tern behind it. There is a law of action and reaction, or
cause and effect. The thought is the action, and the response of the
subconscious mind is the reaction.
His wife left home and asked for a divorce, which is what he feared
and believed she would do.
- Divorce begins in the mind
Divorce takes place first in the mind; the legal proceedings follow
after. These two young people were full of resentment, fear, suspicion,
and anger. These attitudes weaken, exhaust, and debilitate the whole
being. They learned that hate divides and that love unites. They began
to realize what they had been doing with their minds. Neither one of
them knew the law of mental action, nor they were misusing their
minds and bringing on chaos and misery. These two people went back
together at my suggestion and experimented with prayer therapy.
They began to radiate love, peace, and good will to each other. Each
one practiced radiating harmony, health, peace, and love to the other,
and they alternated in the reading of the
Psalms every night. Their marriage is growing more beautiful every
day.