How does the number of times you have thought of it, its appearance of cause and effect, compare with the number of times you have thought of God today? As soon as the weight of our thought about God overbalances our thought about negation, our good will become manifest. Greater understanding of a problem, no matter what the problem may be, will not serve to help us to understand God more readily, to work with God. Only by thinking of Him, by returning to Him again and again in consciousness, shall we be able to work with Him.

Still our impatient hearts may cry: "But this habit of thinking of God is so slow in developing. I want to know the source of my good now!" This is a natural protest, and it arises within each of us who wants to claim his heritage as God's son and heir. But the whole step cannot be taken in one immediate realization, for we have willfully traveled afar in consciousness from the Father's house, and divine awareness must be regained in diligence and patience.

Suppose we wanted to renew a friendship with someone we knew years ago. Would we expect to know once more in one short moment at first meeting the entire nature of that person?