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Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters
Day and Night Experience
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"His delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night."--Ps. 1:2
"Day and night" does not necessarily mean twenty-four hours
of time. It has reference to the daytime of the soul--when
it has light, and everything seems to be going smoothly,
and it can see evidence that the divine law is working; and
to the nighttime of the soul--when a person has gone as far
as the light of his consciousness will take him in a given
direction, and when he must turn within and wait for more
light.
You may not see how the law of the Lord is working for you,
but it is working just as surely as the law of growth is
operative during nighttime. Nighttime is necessary to the
proper growth and development of plants, just as the
daytime and sunlight with their warmth are necessary.
We wouldn't say that "business is dull" with the plants
during the night or that they are not receiving their good.
On the contrary, we have many times seen a transformation
through the night. A plant that had seemed almost dead for
lack of moisture and the ability to draw from the earth the
required elements will be crisp and strong and very
desirable in the morning!
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Had it not been for the night with its blessings, that
plant would have ceased to grow and to yield its
helpfulness to us.
When "nighttime" comes to us, we should use it as a quiet
time of great help. If we do, it will afford us time for
meditation and the careful study of ourselves and our
present methods and plan of service. It will cause us to
turn more to the universal law and its operation and less
to our personal efforts and the ways of others.
In this nighttime we are to rest in the spiritual knowledge
and assurance that our growth is precious in the sight of
the Lord. We are to rejoice that the divine law is ever
operative, ever working to prosper all of God's children.
We are to give thanks that our affairs are in the Father's
hands and under the management of divine wisdom.
We shall rise up to be glad for this "night" in which we
have turned within to the great stream of light, life,
love, substance, and power, and have let them flow silently
into our consciousness, to raise it to the Christ
understanding. As we do this, we will know that we are:
"Like a tree planted by streams of water,
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers."--Ps. 1:3
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