Life Pays Us What We Ask

Life is never unfair to us. We are unfair to ourselves. Ours is the choice: we may offer ourselves in the bargain basement or in the exclusive section, and Life is not only willing to pay; it has no alternative but to pay the exact price we set upon ourselves. It can pay no more or less, because it is impartial as the mirror, which must reflect exactly what is placed before it. It is as impersonal as the loom, which must weave into cloth the threads that are given it, be they cheap white cotton or costly threads of silk.

"My Wage," by Jessie B Rittenhouse, says this very well:

I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;

For Life is a just employer;
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life
Life would have paid.

When we come to see this, Life no longer seems harsh and cruel to us. Our world will change as our ideas concerning ourselves change. So never be afraid to think highly of your value.

This implies making ourselves valuable. The shirker, constantly watching the clock or giving inadequate service, should not expect to lie on his back, filling his thought with the picture of his worth, and imagining that Infinite Mind will bring this later picture into form.

Never say a thing about yourself that you don't desire to see realized in your life. Act out the part of the person you desire to be...we can decide what sort of person we would like to be and begin at once to act the part.

Today is the finished product of yesterday's or last year's thought. Today's thought is even now passing through the loom of mind, will become the pattern of tomorrow's or next year's experience. That which we now are thinking will take form, sometime, somewhere.

If we hope to get free from those negative, unwanted conditions we have been voicing, we must change our thought. And if we have not yet advanced to the point where we have thorough control over our thoughts, we can, at least to a large degree, control our speech; therefore, today we refuse to give utterance to that which we now know will only perpetuate our unwanted past experiences.

Turn away from past failures...and focus instead on past successes no matter how small.

Taken from the book The Science of Mind by Frederick Bailes

Let's practice putting a guard over our mind and our mouth!