Frequently people ask, “Why should God be interested in my little affairs?” I remember once speaking to one of our Trustees, who had been ill for several weeks. I asked him why he had not requested treatment. He said, “I did not wish to bother God with such a small thing.”

This is a natural enough reaction, and yet it is built on ignorance of Cosmic Laws. We might ask, “Is there more life in an elephant than in a flea?” Or from the standpoint of the Infinite, “Is a giant sequoia of more importance than a rose blossoming by the wayside?” Of course not. There is no big and no little, either to the Divine Presence or to the Law which governs everything. Is not the rose rooted in the same soil in which the tree is rooted? It is merely a different type of manifestation of life, taking a separate form but rooted in a common Unity.

We should eliminate the ideas of big and little or hard and easy, because they do not exist in the Creative Mind of the Universe. Things exist there as ideas, and it is the nature of the Law of Mind to cause these ideas to take forms native to such ideas. All ideas are brought into form or fruition through the One Medium. A person running a peanut stand on some street corner and affirming the presence of activity in his business is invoking the same Law as the builders of a railroad or of an Empire State Building are invoking.

The Law always takes the form that we give It. We may call it big or little, or important or unimportant, but the Law as such knows nothing about comparative degrees. The very nature of this Law is such that It cannot say “I am big” in one place and “I am little” in another. It can say only “I am, and that also I am,” including what we call big and little, as it automatically flows through everything, taking the form of all things.

In our treatments we entertain an idea and accept a form, because from the viewpoint of the Law one thing is as important as another. When we ask ourselves how it is that God knows who we are and that our little affairs are important, the answer is that God knows everything, not as big and little, but only as action and reaction, only as contemplation which produces its own reaction.

All great spir itual teachers have told us this, and they were right. All thought of big and little, hard and easy, can and can not, must be divorced from our treatment. Remember that the same ingenuity, the same Creative Power that flows into the largest form also creates the smallest form.

Comparatives do not belong to the Universe. They are merely differentiations in our own mind. Dropping them completely out of our thought, we contemplate neither the big nor the little, but the Thing Itself taking particular form.

A great load will fall from our mind if we will stop thinking about big and little or hard and easy. If you set a spool of thread in front of a mirror, it will be reflected, or if you stand in front of the mirror yourself, you will be reflected. This larger form will be reflected as readily as the smaller form. The mirror knows nothing about size, but reflects automatically the form held in front of it.

We are told that there are many heavenly bodies millions of times larger than the earth; there are many that are smaller, but the same Cause created them, not as big or little but merely as expressions of Itself.

In a certain sense this makes the creation of a mud cake by a child as important as the building of an empire, not that it is fraught with as much significance to human experience, but that from the standpoint of the Creative Genius of the Universe they are just creations.

Is a sunset of less importance than an epic poem? And in reality would the healing of tuberculosis or cancer be of greater importance than the healing of an ordinary cold, or the removal of a wart?

We are told in psychosomatic medicine that warts are easily removed by suggestion, and yet a wart is a definite form rooted in the physical body. How do we know but that, if our idea of cancer were as lightly held as our idea of a wart, a simple suggestion would dissolve cancer as quickly and as easily? From the standpoint of the ultimate Spirit of creativity there is no reason whatsoever to deny the liquidation of one as easily as another.

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