The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.

Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.

We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.

First there was the word. A Course in Miracles says that prayer is the "medium of miracles." It's the realm of thought where we are aligned with the thought of God and therefore in a co- creative mode. It's where we surrender our minds to His mind and become empowered.

What if we truly believed that there is a beneficent order to things, a force that's holding things together without our conscious control? What if we could see, in our daily lives, the working of that force? What if we believed it loved us somehow and cared for us, and protected us? What if we believed we could afford to relax?

We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe.

Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.