Creation is finished and you have free will to choose the state you will oc-
cupy. Therefore, it is important to determine the ideas from which you
think. Any concept that is accepted as true will externalize itself in your
outer world. Choice of what you will focus your attention upon is the only
free will that you can exercise. Once a thought is accepted and charged
with feeling, the creative power within proceeds to externalize it. Whether
your assumptions are conscious or unconscious, they direct all action to
their fulfillment. It is a delusion that, other than assuming the feeling of
the wish fulfilled, you can do anything to aid its realization. Your own
wonderful human imagination determines the means it will use to bring
your assumptions to fruition.
Each of us is subject to a sea of ideas. We listen to the radio, watch the
news on television, or hear some gossip. If what we observe calls forth an
emotion, we have reacted and, thereby, planted a seed which will sprout
at some future time. Thoughts do not recede into the past. Rather, they
advance into the future to confront us so that we may see that which we
have planted, either wisely or unwisely.
It is a worthwhile exercise to awake in the morning and imagine yourself
at the end of your day, having accomplished all that you wanted and feel-
ing happy and contented. If there is a situation that you will encounter
later in the day that is of concern to you, spend a few moments imagin-
ing the outcome you wish to experience. These imaginal activities will now
advance into your future to reveal the harvest you so wisely planted.
Desire
Desire is a gift of God. Man is required to do nothing more than accept
the gift by simply giving thanks for the unseen reality before he observes
it in his outer world. Through desire, God beckons us to lift our awareness
to higher and higher levels of consciousness. During our journey through
this dream of life, it is necessary to experience all possible states so that
we may return as God, the Father, but enhanced by having experienced
both good and evil. The desire to do more, to be more, and to have more
than you are presently expressing is the urge for expansion.
You may question whether a desire to kill or injure someone can be in-
spired by God. The answer is that no man actually desires to kill or harm
another. He may wish to be free from that seeming other and, through his
limited understanding, he feels that the only way he can achieve such
freedom is by destroying the other. Man does not realize that the desire
for freedom contains within itself the power and the means to fulfill itself.
Because of his lack of faith, man distorts these gifts from God. He does
not realize that God, the wisdom and power within him, has ways that
he, as man, knows not of and those ways are past finding out.
Learn to be grateful for the desires you have been given. They already ex-