There are seeds of greatness waiting to take root and flourish in your life. The real creative power of the mind is deeper than the intellect. While we admire the intellect, we must realize that the mind is not the creative factor in the Universe, rather it is the feeling that is creative. When the imagination and the will are in conflict, the imagination invariably wins. God speaks to the heart through language of feelings, a sensation which is affirmative. There are many people who have splendid intellects, whose logic is almost perfect, but who seem never to penetrate the deeper mind where the creativity resides. To all treatments, no matter how intellectually or analytically correct they may be, there must be added this deep feeling and faith that enable one to commune with God. God is the First Cause or sustaining power of the World. Love demands society and community, but the divine society of the Trinity is itself thought of as supplying this scope from love, from eternity. It is possible, therefore, to see the creation of the World as a wholly gratuitous exercise of love. It is an inward emotion of the mind which reaches out until it strikes some corresponding chord emanating from the Universe itself. God revealed himself through the specific events of history and in no less historical life. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6

The conception of God is very different from the conception of a mere timeless something beyond the World, upon which the World depends. Since God created the World and time together, his creative and sustaining act must fall outside the temporal dimension, and likewise his purposing and willing. This is what an artist feels. In a sense he or she weds oneself to the essence of beauty and draws it into one’s own being until beauty becomes diffused through his or her technique and makes an imprint that the intellect cannot analyze. Then intellect stands in awe before the supreme reality, yet still knowing that it is the essence of its true being waiting to become articulate. Perhaps this is the real and true meaning of communion, which cannot be described but can be felt. As human beings reason downward from the knowledge of the attributes of God to knowledge of oneself, the religion of nature, including all the moral precepts requisite for leading the life of virtue and achieving ultimate salvation, then follows. God does speak to the heart more than to the intellect, and this is why it is that often we will find people who operate based on faith. They know that God is all there is and there is nothing else. God specializes in using people to show us that we are his ideal showcases for his greatness and glory. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6

By this inward faith, our intellect has surrendered to that which is greater than we are, and the miracle takes place. We are permitted, encouraged, even commanded to assist in bringing to pass the eternal life of human beings, which is, of course, part of our great mission. God promised us things which we cannot do, and greater things than we can do. And God does great unto us according to our desire. If the desire is strong enough, performance is assured. Look to the Lord for your blessings. There is a law, irrevocably decreed in Heaven before the foundations of this World, upon which all blessings are predicated—and when we obtain any blessing from God, it is by obedience to that law upon which it is established. The purpose for looking to the Lord for our blessings is because, among other reasons, he owns everything—the World and everything and everybody in it. “Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the Earth your possession (Psalm 2.8).” Future ages will bring with them new and probably unimaginably great advances in this World of civilization and will increase human’s likeness to God still more. We require civilized people to reverence beauty wherever one sees it in nature and to create it in the objects of one’s handiwork so far as one is able. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6

In scanning the Heavens with a telescope, we may find the beauty of God. Beauty can be expected to arouse the appropriate response, which is referred to briefly and loosely as pleasure and delight. We expect besides to see the signs of cleanliness and order. We do not think highly of the cultural level of there were towns with big dung-heaps in front of houses and in the street. Dirtiness of any kind seems to us incompatible with civilization. We extend our demand for cleanliness to the human body, too. Beauty, cleanliness and order obviously occupy a special position among the requirements of civilization. We have to find ways to unlearn those things that screen us from the perception of profound truth. It is also important to make sure that we do not become a society that finds it difficult to discover the exuberant joy and spontaneity of youth so we do not spend great sums of money on electronic entertainment centers that do not speak to the soul’s need for human contact and the pleasure that comes from nature. There is a river of life, clear as crystal, flowing through the body of humanity, uniting every part into one great being in God. When we drink from this well of water, we will never thirst again. The simile of water symbolized the flowing power of pure spirit. The spirit is always thought of as something fluid. #RandolphHarris 4 of 6

Modern physics has theoretically resolved all physical forms into lines of energy, and these lines of energy must be directed by some intelligence or they would never take definite form. All the faculties and feelings of our minds and bodies have their appropriate objects; and the possession of the faculties supposes the existence of those objects. Thus the eye, in its very structure, supposes that there is light to be seen, and the ear would be unaccountable and inconceivable without the existence of sound. In like manner, our religious feelings and aspirations necessitate the existence of God. The yearning for some kind of God does point toward an in-built hunger in each of us—a hunger for something greater than we are. A person may be said to believe in God if one believes in a Supreme Being, personal and intelligent, to whom we own honor and reverence. The human mind was made by God, who would not deceive his children. It is fortunate, indeed, that this is true because we are still being carried forward on the spirit of this infinite stream to a harbor of perfect safety. We may rest in absolute assurance that good is the final goal of all things. We can hasten the advent of God by definitely clarifying our thoughts and by daily praying to God, the wellspring of life within each one of us.  #RandolphHarris 5 of 6

Surely, in the work of the Lord, it is what we do after we think we have done enough that really counts with him, for that is when the blessings flow. Expect a miracle. All too often we really do not expect a miracle. We are not looking for it, and so do not recognize it when it comes. We pray for the Lord to cause a miracle which will remove those barriers the prohibit us from entering the nations where we are presently excluded. When God said, “Lengthen your stride, quicken your pace, heighten your reach, widen your vision, and stretch your capacity,” he was in reality saying expect a miracle for these are the actions from which miracles are made. Receive the miracles with great modesty. Know that you did not do it. It was done by God and the glory will be yours forever. Success this month is not a justification to stop and glory in our record, but should merely serve as an impetus to greater and more noble accomplishments next month in the Lord’s name. For, we know that is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do. So, believe that you can do it and look to the Lord for your blessings. Know that miracles are coming your way. The forces in you are far grater than the forces trying to contain you. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6