gift! I felt like Ben Franklin who, as a barefooted boy, resolved that

when he grew up and had pennies he would buy a stick of red striped

peppermint candy; but when he grew up and had the pennies he didn't want

the candy.

 

I have learned to smile at that experience as the bitterest and sweetest

of my past life, and the source of volumes of wisdom. The Law of

Attraction knew and the Law kept him from me. I afterward found the

real comrade, and more than the joy I thought I had forever missed!

 

"We are pretty silly children, dearie, without the child's best quality,

TRUST."

 

Just you let go of everything and everybody and apply yourself to

doing THIS hour, with love, what your hands find to do; and trust

the Law to bring you in due time ALL the good things you ever desired.

 

ACCEPT what comes as from the Law; meet it kindly and do your best.

 

The time came when I left my husband and secured a divorce. This may be

your time to leave, or it may not. But NO one can know but yourself, and

you will know as soon as you really want to know what is RIGHT, and

get quiet enough to find the decision about which you have no doubt.

"BLESSED is he that doubteth not in that thing which he alloweth." "He

that doubteth is damned already." When you are sure, then go ahead;

and the whole universe, seen and unseen, will work together for you

and with you.

 

What is it that ties you to one man and not to another? Not the words of

a priest or a justice of the peace. It is your thought about the

matter, and his thought about the matter, which ties you. You may not

have thought you were tied until the preacher told you; but not his

words but your acceptance does the real tying.

 

If you are ever freed from a husband you must think yourself

free - just as you must think yourself free from any other bondage. I

thought myself free several years before I applied for a legal

separation; so that when I did apply it was to me merely a technicality.

 

Divorce or no divorce you are tied to a man until you think yourself

untied.

 

Be still and find your mental freedom. Then you will know what to do.

 

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A year after I wrote the above letter to a young woman who wanted to

leave her husband and go to her "soul mate," I received from her another