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Secret Door to Success, Chapter 11, Florence Scovel Shinn

Chapter 11 - Look With Wonder

Date: 12/27/2007 10:18:02 PM ( 18 y ) ... viewed 1370 times

Chapter 11 - Look With Wonder
"I will remember the works of the Lord; surely I
will remember your wonders of old." --Psalms 77:11
The words wonder and wonderful are used many times
in the Bible. In the dictionary the word wonder
is defined as, "a cause for surprise,
astonishment, a miracle, a marvel."
Ouspensky, in his book, "Tertium Organum," calls
the 4th dimensional world, the "World of the
Wondrous." He has figured out mathematically,
that there is a realm where all conditions are
perfect. Jesus Christ called it the Kingdom.
We might say, "Seek ye first the world of the
wondrous, and all things shall be added unto you."
It can only be reached through a state of
consciousness.
Jesus Christ said, to enter the Kingdom we must
become "as a little child." Children are
continually in a state of joy and wonder!
The future holds promises of mysterious good.
Anything can happen overnight.
Robert Louis Stevenson, in "A Child's Garden of
Verses" says: "The world is so full of a number of
things. I'm sure we should all be as happy as
kings."
So let us look with wonder at that which is before
us; that statement was given me a number of years
ago, I mention it in my book, "The Game of Life
and How To Play It."
I had missed an opportunity and felt that I should
have been more awake to my good. The next day, I
took the statement early in the morning, "I look
with wonder at that which is before me."
At noon the phone rang, and the proposition was
put to me again. This time I grasped it. I did
indeed, look with wonder for I never expected the
opportunity to come to me again.
A friend in one of my meetings said the other day,
that this statement had brought her wonderful
results. It fills the consciousness with happy
expectancy.
Children are filled with happy expectancy until
grown-up people, and unhappy experiences bring
them out of the world of the wondrous!
Let us look back and remember some of the gloomy
ideas which were given us: "Eat the speckled
apples first." "Don't expect too much, then you
won't be disappointed." "You can't have everything
in this life." "Childhood is your happiest time."
"No one knows what the future will bring." What a
start in life!
These are some of the impressions I picked up in
early childhood.
At the age of six I had a great sense of
responsibility. Instead of looking with wonder at
that which was before me, I looked with fear and
suspicion. I feel much younger now than I did
when I was six.
I have an early photograph taken about that time,
grasping a flower, but with a careworn and
hopeless expression.
I had left the world of the wondrous behind me! I
was now living in the world of realities, as my
elders told me and it was far from wondrous.
It is a great privilege for children to live in
this age, when they are taught Truth from their
birth. Even if they are not taught actual
metaphysics, the ethers are filled with joyous
expectancy.
You may become a Shirley Temple or a Freddy
Bartholomew or a great pianist at the age of six
and go on a concert tour.
We are all now back in the world of the wondrous,
where anything can happen overnight, for when
miracles do come, they come quickly!
So let us become Miracle Conscious and prepare for
miracles, expect miracles, and we are then
inviting them into our lives.
Maybe you need a financial miracle! There is a
supply for every demand. Through active faith,
the word and intuition, we release this invisible
supply.
I will give an example: One of my students found
herself almost without funds, she needed one
thousand dollars, and she had had plenty of money
at one time and beautiful possessions, but had
nothing left but an ermine wrap. No fur dealer
would give her much for it.
I spoke the word that it would be sold to the
right person for the right price, or that the
supply would come in some other way. It was
necessary that the money manifest at once, it was
no time to worry or reason.
She was on the street making her affirmations. It
was a stormy day. She said to herself, "I'm going
to show active faith in my invisible supply by
taking a taxi cab." It was a very strong hunch.
As she got out of the taxi, at her destination, a
woman stood waiting to get in.
It was an old friend, a very, very kind friend.
It was the first time in her life she had ever
taken a taxi, but her Rolls Royce was out of
commission that afternoon.
They talked and my friend told her about the
ermine wrap. "Why," her friend said, "I will give
you a thousand dollars for it." And that
afternoon she had the cheque.
God's ways are ingenious, His methods are sure.
A student wrote me the other day, that she was
using that statement - "God's ways are ingenious,
His methods are sure." A series of unexpected
contacts brought about a situation she had been
desiring. She looked with wonder at the working
of the law.
Our demonstrations usually come within a "split
second." All is timed with amazing accuracy in
Divine Mind.
My student left the taxi, just as her friend
stopped to enter; a second later, she would have
hailed another taxi.
Man's part is to be wide awake to his leads and
hunches; for on the magic path of Intuition is all
that he desires or requires.
In Moulton's Modern Reader's Bible, the book of
Psalms is recognized as the perfection of lyric
poetry.
"The musical meditation which is the essence of
lyrics can find no higher field than the devout
spirit which at once raises itself to the service
of God, and overflows on the various sides of
active and contemplative life."
The Psalms are also human documents, and I have
selected the 77th Psalm because it gives the
picture of a man in despair, but as he
contemplates the wonders of God, faith and
assurance are restored to him.
"I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God
with my voice; and He gave ear unto me.
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord, my
soul refused to be comforted.
Will the Lord cast off forever? And will he be
favourable no more?
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in
anger shut up his tender mercies?
And I said, This is my infirmity, but I will
remember the years of the right hand of the Most
High.
I will meditate also of all your work, and talk of
your doings.
Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary, who is so
great a God as our God!
You are the God that does wonders.
You have with your arm redeemed your people."
This is a picture of what the average Truth
student goes through when confronted with a
problem. He is assailed by thoughts of doubt,
fear and despair.
Then some statement of Truth will flash into his
consciousness - "God's ways are ingenious, His
methods are sure!" He remembers other
difficulties which have been overcome, his
confidence in God returns. He thinks, "what God
has done before, He will do for me and more!"
I was talking to a friend not long ago who said,
"I would be pretty dumb if I didn't believe God
could solve my problem. So many times before,
wonderful things have come to me, I know they will
come again!"
So the summing up of the 77th Psalm is, "What God
has done before, he now does for me and more!"
It is a good thing to say when you think of your
past success, happiness or wealth. All loss comes
from your own vain imaginings, fear of loss crept
into your consciousness, you carried burdens and
fought battles, you reasoned instead of sticking
to the magic path of intuition.
But in the twinkling of an eye, all will be
restored to you, for as they say in the East,
"What Allah has given, cannot be diminished."
Now to go back to the child's state of
consciousness, you should be filled with wonder,
but be careful not to live in your past childhood.
I know people who can only think about their happy
childhood days. They remember what they wore! No
skies have since been so blue, or grass so green.
They therefore miss the opportunities of the
wonderful now.
I will tell an amusing story of a friend who lived
in a town when she was very young, then moved away
to another city. She always looked back to the
house they first lived in, to her it was an
enchanted palace, large, spacious and glamorous.
Many years after, when she had grown up, she had
an opportunity of visiting this house. She was
disillusioned, she found it small, stuffy and
ugly. Her idea of beauty had entirely changed,
for in the front yard was an iron dog.
If you went back to your past, it would not be the
same. So in this friend's family, they called
living in the past, "iron dogging."
Her sister told me a story of some "iron dogging"
she had done. When she was about sixteen, she met
abroad, a very dashing and romantic young man, an
artist. This romance didn't last long, but she
talked about it a lot to the man she afterwards
married.
Years rolled by, the dashing and romantic young
man, had become a well-known artist and came to
this country to have an exhibition of his
pictures. My friend was filled with excitement,
and hunted him up to renew their friendship. She
went to his exhibition, and in walked a portly
business man, no trace was left of the dashing
romantic youth! When she told her husband, all he
said was, "iron dogging."
Remember, now is the appointed time! Today is the
day! And your good can happen over night.
Look with wonder at that which is before you!
We are filled with divine expectancy, "I will
restore to you the years which the locusts have
eaten!"
Now let each one think of the good which seems so
difficult to attain. It may be health, wealth,
happiness or perfect self-expression.
Do not think how your good can be accomplished,
just give thanks that you have already received on
the invisible plane, "therefore the steps leading
up to it are secured also."
Be wide awake to your intuitive leads, and
suddenly, you find yourself in your Promised Land.
"I look with wonder at that which is before me."

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