I have been sometimes asked, “Suppose one has several talents, how is he to know which one to choose?” Demand to be shown definitely. Say: “Infinite Spirit, give me a definite lead, reveal to me my perfect self-expression, show me which talent I am to make use of now.” I have known people to suddenly enter a new line of work, and be fully equipped, with little or no training. So make the statement: “_I am fully equipped for the Divine Plan of my life_,” and be fearless in grasping opportunities. Some people are cheerful givers, but bad receivers. They refuse gifts through pride, or some negative reason, thereby blocking their channels, and invariably find themselves eventually with little or nothing. For example: A woman who had given away a great deal of money, had a gift offered her of several thousand dollars. She refused to take it, saying she did not need it. Shortly after that, her finances were “tied up,” and she found herself in debt for that amount. Man should receive gracefully the bread returning to him upon the water—freely ye have given, freely ye shall receive. There is always the perfect balance of giving and receiving, and though man should give without thinking of returns, he violates law if he does not accept the returns which come to him; for all gifts are from God, man being merely the channel. A thought of lack should never be held over the giver. For example: When the man gave me the one cent, I did not say: “Poor man, he cannot afford to give me that.” I saw him rich and prosperous, with his supply pouring in. It was this thought which brought it. If one has been a bad receiver, he must become a good one, and take even a postage stamp if it is given him, and open up his channels for receiving. The Lord loveth a cheerful receiver, as well as a cheerful giver. I have often been asked why one man is born rich and healthy, and another poor and sick. Where there is an effect there is always a cause; there is no such thing as chance. This question is answered through the law of reincarnation. Man goes through many births and deaths, until he knows the truth which sets him free. He is drawn back to the earth plane through unsatisfied desire, to pay his Karmic debts, or to “fulfill his destiny.” The man born rich and healthy has had pictures in his subconscious mind, in his past life, of health and riches; and the poor and sick man, of disease and poverty. Man manifests, on any plane, the sum total of his subconscious beliefs. However, birth and death are man-made laws, for the “wages of sin is death”; the Adamic fall in consciousness through the belief in _two powers_. The real man, spiritual man, is birthless and deathless! He never was born and has never died—“As he was in the beginning, he is now, and ever shall be!”