Christian Healing

there is no occasion for change, hence all prayers and supplications for the change of God's will to conform to human desires are futile. God does not change his mind nor trim original: "trim"—meaning to adjust, adapt, or compromise his thought to meet the conflicting opinions of mankind. Understanding the perfection of God-thoughts, man must conform to them; then he will discover that there is never a necessity for any change of the will of God in human affairs.

A key to the God-Mind is within everyone—it is the action of the individual mind. Man is created in the "image and likeness" of God; he is therefore a phase of the God-Mind, and his mind must act like the Original Mind. Study your own mind, and through it you will find the God-Mind. In no other way can you get a complete understanding of yourself, the universe, and the law under which it is being brought forth. When you see the Creator thinking out his universe as the mathematician thinks out his problem, you will understand the necessity of the very apparent effort that nature makes to express itself. You will also understand why the impulse within your soul for higher things keeps welling up. God-Mind is thinking in you, and pushing your mind to grasp true ideas and carry them into expression.

It is therefore true, in logic and inspiration, that man and the universe are within the God-Mind as living, acting thoughts. God-Mind is giving itself to its creations, and they are evolving an independence that has the power to cooperate with or oppose the Original Will. It is then of vital importance to study the mind,