and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery.

My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea. He said, “Why don’t you choose your own conception of God?”

“My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen.”

baffled

God comes to most men gradually,

In no time I was beating on the bar asking myself how it happened.

Our human resources, as marshaled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly.

I caught the word resentment. He said, in effect: “If you have a resentment you want to be free of, if you will pray for the person or the thing that you resent, you will be free. If you will ask in prayer for everything you want for yourself to be given to them, you will be free. Ask for their health, their prosperity, their happiness, and you

Nevertheless, I still thought I could control the situation,