The divine selection would have given perfect satisfaction and brought good to all. The divine pattern is the only safe pattern to work by. _Desire is a tremendous force, and must be directed in the right channels; or chaos ensues._ In demonstrating, the most important step is the _first step, to “ask aright_.” Man should always demand only that which is his by _divine right_. To go back to the illustration: Had the woman taken this attitude: “If this house, I desire, is mine, I cannot lose it, if it is not, give me its equivalent,” the man might have decided to move out, harmoniously (had it been the divine selection for her) or another house would have been substituted. Anything forced into manifestation through personal will, is always “ill-got,” and has “ever bad success.” Man is admonished, “My will be done not thine, and the curious thing is, man always gets just what he desires when he does relinquish personal will, thereby enabling Infinite Intelligence to work through him.” “Stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord” (law). For example: A woman came to me in great distress. Her daughter had determined to take a very hazardous trip, and the mother was filled with fear. She said she had used every argument, had pointed out the dangers to be encountered, and forbidden her to go, but the daughter became more and more rebellious and determined. I said to the mother, “You are forcing your personal will upon your daughter, which you have no right to do, and your fear of the trip is only attracting it, for man attracts what he fears.” I added, “Let go, and take your mental hands off; _put it in God’s Hands, and use this statement_:” “I put this situation in the hands of Infinite Love and Wisdom; if this trip is the Divine plan, I bless it and no longer resist, but if it is not divinely planned, I give thanks that it is now dissolved and dissipated.” A day or two after that, her daughter said to her, “Mother, I have given up the trip,” and the situation returned to its “native nothingness.” It is learning to “stand still,” which seems so difficult for man. I have dealt more fully with this law in the chapter on nonresistance. I will give another example of sowing and reaping, which came in the most curious way. A woman came to me saying, she had received a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, given to her at the bank. She was much disturbed, for, she said, “The people at the bank will never acknowledge their mistake.” I replied, “Let us analyze the situation and find out why you attracted it.” She thought a few moments and exclaimed: “I know it, I sent a friend a lot of stagemoney, just for a joke.” So the law had sent her some stagemoney, for it doesn’t know anything about jokes. I said, “Now we will call on the law of forgiveness, and neutralize the situation.”