Look With Wonder
“I will remember the works of the Lord; surely I will remember thy wonders of old.”
—PSALMS 77:11
The words wonder and wonderful are used many times in the Bible. In the dictionary the word wonder is defined as, “a cause for surprise, astonishment, a miracle, a marvel.”
P.D. Ouspensky, in his book Tertium Organum, calls the 4th dimensional world, the “World of the Wondrous.” He has figured out mathematically that there is a realm where all conditions are perfect. Jesus Christ called it the Kingdom.
We might say, “Seek ye first the world of the wondrous, and all things shall be added unto you.”
It can only be reached through a state of consciousness.
Jesus Christ said to enter the Kingdom we must become “as a little child.” Children are continually in a state of joy and wonder!
The future holds promises of mysterious good. Anything can happen overnight.
Robert Louis Stevenson in A Child’s Garden of Verses says: “The world is so full of a number of things. I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
So let us look with wonder at that which is before us. That statement was given me a number of years ago, I mention it in my book, The Game of Life and How To Play It.
I had missed an opportunity and felt that I should have been more awake to my good. The next day, I took the statement early in the morning: “I look with wonder at that which is before me.”
At noon the phone rang, and the proposition was put to me again. This time I grasped it. I did indeed look with wonder for I never expected the opportunity to come to me again.
A friend in one of my meetings said the other day that this statement had brought her wonderful results. It fills the consciousness with happy expectancy.
Children are filled with happy expectancy until grown-up people, and unhappy experiences, bring them out of the world of the wondrous!
Let us look back and remember some of the gloomy ideas that were given us: “Eat the speckled apples first.” “Don’t expect too much, then you won’t be disappointed.” “You can’t have everything in this life.” “Childhood is your happiest time.” “No one knows what the future will bring.”
These are some of the impressions I picked up in early childhood.
At the age of six I had a great sense of responsibility. Instead of looking with wonder at that which was before me, I looked with fear and suspicion. I feel much younger now than I did when I was six.
I have an early photograph taken about that time, grasping a flower, but with a careworn and hopeless expression.
I had left the world of the wondrous behind me! I was now living in the world of realities, as my elders told me, and it was far from wondrous.
It is a great privilege for children to live in this age, when they are taught Truth from their birth. Even if they are not taught actual metaphysics, the ethers are filled with joyous expectancy.
So let us become Miracle Conscious and prepare for miracles, expect miracles, and we are then inviting them into our lives.
Maybe you need a financial miracle! There is a supply for every demand. Through active faith, the word, and intuition, we release this invisible supply.
I will give an example: One of my students found herself almost without funds, she needed one thousand dollars, and she had had plenty of money at one time and beautiful possessions, but had nothing left but an ermine wrap. No fur dealer would give her much for it.
I spoke the word that it would be sold to the right person for the right price, or that the supply would come in some other way. It was necessary that the money manifest at once, it was no time to worry or reason.
She was on the street making her affirmations. It was a stormy day. She said to herself, “I’m going to show active faith in my invisible supply by taking a taxi cab.” It was a very strong hunch. As she got out of the taxi, at her destination, a woman stood waiting to get in.
It was an old friend, a very, very kind friend. It was the first time in her life she had ever taken a taxi, but her Rolls Royce was out of commission that afternoon.
They talked and my friend told her about the ermine wrap. “Why,” her friend said, “I will give you a thousand dollars for it.” And that afternoon she had the check.
God’s ways are ingenious, His methods are sure.