It is the nature of the creative Law of Mind to respond to us, to give us what we ask, when we ask it, and in the way in which we ask it. Thus the childlike mind of acceptance is likened unto the kingdom of heaven. Not faith in God, but the faith of God is unqualified acceptance.

Our bowl of acceptance must be held up so that it may be filled by the outpouring of Spirit. Its size may be measured in our individual experience according to the law of mental equivalents, which says that whatever we can inwardly conceive, we may outwardly experience. This is because the external is merely a reflection of the internal.

The habit of acceptance should be cultivated and used. Since we automatically attract that which is like our thought and since our patterns of thought are largely habitual why not form the habit of expectancy and acceptance?

Our prayers, to be effective, must be affirmations which are so formulated in our mind as to produce an actual inner acceptance of the good desire expressed, even before we have experienced that particular good. We are planting our desire in the garden of a creative Law of Mind which produces a plant exactly like the seed and never anything else.