Good Morning Garden

Why has not your prayer been answered? Perhaps it has. Strangely enough, it often happens that we receive an answer to our prayer and do not recognize it. Some of us have had demonstrations in our possession for weeks or months and have not known it. This mistake is caused by outlining. We have unconsciously decided that the demonstration must take a particular form, and because that form does not appear, we think we have failed. Actually we probably have an even better demonstration than we expected, but for the moment we are blind to it.  

If a boy prayed for a man’s hat (because he thought it would look well on him or make him grown up) he would not get it; since divine Wisdom knows that he could not wear it. He would get a good hat of the sort that would be useful to him. We often pray for things for which we are not really prepared; but if we pray scientifically this will not matter, since Creative Intelligence will send us the thing that we really need.   Seek God for his own sake, for the joy of being with Him and demonstrations will take care of themselves.  

I will be glad in the Lord (Psalm 104:34)

We often think we know what we need and ask God for it. Sometimes we are praying for that which will result in our best good. Sometimes we are not. God will not grant to us that which will harm us unless there is a greater good to come from it. We should always pray for what we think we need, but we should also submit it to God by asking that God’s will be done. And we should ask that God help us understand the answer.   God knows what we need before we ask and and even knows what we need when we don’t know. So we should always expect that our prayers will be answered, and understand that sometimes the answer is no. When we are at ease with God’s answers, we will be glad in the Lord while our prayers, those answered in the affirmative and negative, will lead to the peace that surpasses all understanding. It is then that our gardens will be places where our hats fit and so do our prayers.  

Wearing the hat,

Z gardener