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 force of physical power, become as nothing before the warm, true flush of an inspired soul. “God measures souls, by their capacity of entertaining His best Angel–LOVE. Who loveth most, is nearest kin to God.”

One entertains a thought and it passes into the imagination and reacts upon the feelings. The emotional fast demands that we clean up our moods. Induce the state of mind and feeling we want to live in and come away from all dark, gloomy feelings, forebodings or melancholy. Cultivate joy; laugh, leap, dance, run, smile, sing and be happy. “Except ye become as a little child ye can in no wise enter into the KindomKingdom [sic] of Heaven” is just as true today as it was when the Master said it. Return again to the light heart of youth, if you do it with tears in your eyes and a smile that you cultivate. Come out from under your load of responsibility; slip it onto the universal shoulders. Often after a true fast we will find that it has slipped off forever.

There is no use worrying over anything, no use carrying such heavy burdens. Life may be easy and the first place to make it so is in the mind and emotions. You may have to fast more than once to arrange your whole universe, but just for the fast time as if it really existed and take all the emotional rapture you can out of it.

What if you do live in a fool’s paradise?