law that
never fail of fulfillment. "Prove me now,"
says God, "whether I will not open the
windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing
greater than ye are able to receive."
His only condition is that we shall "give
first"--that's all. Commonly we do not
take this sort of promise seriously; but
it is sound and true. Is there anything
wrong about the foregoing argument? God
is the law. He is the law of love,
which is only another name for the law
of giving and receiving. If you will stop
thinking of God as a joke, or as a terror,
or as a myth, or as a dream, or as something
far off and outside everyday life, and
will think of Him as the Maker of the
law of gravitation and of the law of love,
one of which is just as real as the other--you'll
get somewhere.
If you want to know how, the whole secret lies in beginning. The way to do it is to do it. Right where you are, now, begin to give something good to the person nearest to you, and keep on doing it, no matter what you seem to get back at first. Do! Don't talk! And you'll lift yourself out of your troubles, no matter what they seem to be or how deeply you seem to be sunk in them. Try it. You'll be surprised. I was. Try it as patiently and as hard as you would try to get a drink of water if you were very thirsty. You'll get a return, a reward, that you don't even dream of yet. You will! Don't let anybody fool you about it.
And besides, if it doesn't work, you don't have to keep on with it. But you will keep on--if you give it a fair chance to prove itself. Because--it works.
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