Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother

31 January 1965

Gracious Mother,

My body and mind are very tired. How can I continue unless I learn to work without exerting myself?

Getting the first issue of the World Union journal out of the Press and the next issue in at the same time, as well as trying to keep the Book Stock work going smoothly—and at night the group exercises!

Mother, can't you teach me how not to exert myself, how to live in the peace of the Lord as you told me on my birthday?

The impulse for work must come from within or above, not from the pressure of outer circumstances and wills. If the work of the World Union journal is a strain YOU MUST STOP IT—let somebody else take it up.

The work assigned to you is the maintenance of the "Book Stock" and that, that alone, you can do without straining yourself. Take all the rest you need and use that rest to go deep inside and to find the Divine's Peace there.

Love and blessings

31 January 1965