THE PROBLEM OF EVIL NO LONGER INTRIGUES ME
“These facts have always suggested to man the sublime creed that the world is not the product of manifold power, but of one will, of one mind; and that one mind is everywhere active, in each ray of the star, in each wavelet of the pool; and whatever opposes that will is everywhere balked and baffled, because things are made so, and not otherwise.” Emerson
God dominates my whole experience. There is so much of God everywhere in my life, that I cannot see any opposite. My health cannot know disease and my prosperity cannot know decrease. I am completely convinced that God is the only power. Mind is the only reality and Love is the only atmosphere. Evil is a word without meaning. I perceive the Truth and the Truth has set me free from all false speculations. Within me, around me and through me there is nothing but pure Mind. I bask in Its eternal embrace; I think in Its eternal consciousness of good.
The problem of evil no longer fascinates me, for I see it as nothing. Negatives are merely my misunderstanding of positives. I can see only that which is of good report. My eyes are now too pure to behold any viciousness in creation. God appears to me in all things, in all people and in my own uplifted thinking. All resistance to problems is erased, because the problems are merely my opportunities to prove God as the only cause. I accomplish with ease, where others struggle to make ends meet.
God’s Spirit in me appreciates my recognition of Itself, and out-pours upon me all of Its qualities, ideas and aspects. All life moves to grant me the ability and the power to do what I know is right and fine and true. The inner upsurging of Divine Intelligence and Creativeness impels me to right decisions and right actions. There is nothing to fight; there are no battles to be won. The victorious Truth of my being expresses as me, and dominion over all the good is mine to use. All positives are mine. All virtues belong to me. All of God is revealed to me, and I demonstrate my happiness.
Taken from “Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker