eople have a strong conviction that some must
necessarily be poor; that they were made to be poor. But there was no
poverty, no want, no lack, in the Creator's plan for man. There need
not be a poor person on the planet. The earth is full of resources
which we have scarcely yet touched. We have been poor in the very
midst of abundance, simply because of our own blighting limiting
thought.

We are discovering that thoughts are things, that they are incorporated
into the life and form part of the character, and if we harbor the fear
thought, the lack thought, if we are afraid of poverty, of coming to
want, this poverty thought, fear thought incorporates itself in the
very life texture and makes us the magnet to attract more poverty like
itself.

It was not intended that we should have such a hard time getting a
living, that we should just manage to squeeze along, to get together a
few comforts, to spend about all of our time making a living instead of
making a life. The life abundant, full, free, beautiful, was intended
for us.

Let us put up a new image, a new ideal of plenty, of abundance. Have
we not worshiped the God of poverty, of lack, of want, about long
enough? Let us hold the thought that God is our great supply, that if
we can keep in tune, in close touch with Him, so that we can feel our
at-one-ness with Him, the great Source of all supply, abundance will
flow to us and we shall never again know want.

There is nothing which the human race lacks so much as unquestioned,
implicit confidence in the divine source of all supply. We ought to
stand in the same relation to the Infinite Source as the child does to
its parents. The child does not say, "I do not dare eat this food for
fear that I may not get any more." It takes everything with absolute
confidence and assurance that all its needs will be supplied, that
there is plenty more where these things came from.

We do not have half good enough opinions of our possibilities; do not
expect half enough of ourselves; we do not demand half enough, hence
the meagerness, the stinginess of what we actually get. We do not
demand the abundance which belongs to us, hence the leanness, the lack
of fulness, the incompleteness of our lives. We do not demand royally
enough. We are content with too little of the things worth while. _It
was intended that we should live the abundant life_, that we should
have plenty of everything that is good for us. No one was