Good Morning Garden

There is nothing in the universe that you cannot do or be if you are mentally ready. People speak of golden opportunities but what we call opportunity is really our own mental readiness. Napoleon said, “Opportunities? I make opportunities”; and while this would be merely a vainglorious boast for one who is not on the spiritual basis, yet when you do understand the Truth of Being, it is simply a statement of fact. The Romans could have had the telephone; the Greeks could have had the cinema; the Babylonians could have had the automobile—had they been mentally ready. The laws of nature were the same in those ages as in ours, the same materials were in the ground—but the minds of the Ancients were not ready for those things, and so they had to go without them.

Supply the necessary mental condition, and the demand, the opportunity, or the occasion, will present itself automatically.

Whenever you are ready you will find that everything else is ready too.

Take ye heed, watch and pray; for ye know not when the time is (Mark 13:33).

This is what the bible means when it says the old person will die and a new person will be born. When we make the mental and spiritual changes necessary to follow the will of God, we are creating a new mentality and a new way of living. As in most tasks, all the hardest work is in the preparation.

Let’s say we want to sell our house but it is too run down to present an opportunity for the sale. Just as a painter must repair, scrape, sand and prime an old house before applying the new outer coat, so we must remove the flaking and deteriorated outer shell in order to find the good wood underneath. Then when we strip sand off our old ways, remove and replace the useless and deteriorated habits and structures of our lives and seal the renewed structure with our faith, we can then apply the new outer coat that radiates beauty, protects our new selves20and prepares us to benefit from every opportunity that our new life presents to us.

Z gardener