Within a few days the Truth student received an unexpected telephone call from the woman for whom she had been praying. During the conversation, as they exchanged kind and friendly words, the misunderstanding and tension gave way to understanding and peace, and harmony was restored between the two women. Through this experience the Truth student found that by refusing to make something of the incident, and instead making the most of God the good, she received a deep blessing of new spiritual understanding, a blessing that not only benefited herself, but also benefited everyone connected with the situation.

Sometimes our difficulties seem greater than we can bear, and because of them we become easily led into a state of resentment and rebellion. Such attitudes of mind do nothing to help the situation. They only bring us down lower and lower into further and deeper discouragement. To help ourselves out of such a negative state of thinking and feeling, we need to take some strong and definite stand; we need to make some definite personal effort, clear-cut enough that the negative thought will be routed from our conscious and subconscious mind.

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