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Today's reading was edited and adapted from Working with God by Gardner Hunting published in 1934

Why not have what you want? Have you settled down with a notion that you can't get it?

Are you accepting a disappointment as something you must suffer through?

Do you look at the thing that you really desire as being far beyond your reach?

Do you carry around with you a heartache because you think your heart's desire is finally and forever denied you?

Do you look on yourself as being down and out with no chance to get back?

Do you think you are too poor to buy the things you like, or even the things you need?

Have you done something that you think has brought a penalty upon you?

Sickness, poverty, loss of freedom, grief?

Well, before you give it all up as hopeless, won't you just hear me out a little way to see if your

case is as bad as you think it is? I am not trying to sell you anything, or to teach you anything,

or to persuade you of anything, but just want to share with you the ideas that changed the life

of a man who used to think as you do, and who thought he had a good reason to think so,

but who has found out that he was mistaken, and that life is not hopeless at all, and who believes that what helped him may help somebody

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