I do not believe that we are just passively receiving messages from a divine source. Instead, we are reflecting back our own image that is contained within His word. This means that the word contains all of our experiences as a creation of God, for our own good. We experience love as we understand the necessary purposes of God, and become contained by His word. In this way, our sorrows, fears, and anxieties are swallowed up by God's holistic creative goodness, and we are able to fully express our inward experience. We express our reactions to our troubles with all the strength and serenity in our prayer, and God creates the alignment of our faculties in our reaction to these real events. Denying self is not controlling our natural impulses but rather pouring them out as a poison to our inward parts. This exercise of sincere reaction can have a delayed effect. When we breathe out the poison of anger and sorrow in our prayer, it is a gift of growing down in being human. There is a delayed effect in this exercise of sincere reaction. The different creative personalities that God creates in each individual give us more freedom to express ourselves, as we are recreated in God's image. When we expel the poison of negative thoughts and emotions, we open ourselves up to new possibilities and experiences. There is a difference between settling for compromise and experience what we truly desire. We are drawn to the mystical experience because it is a reminder of our humanity. But healing is uniting the spiritual with the physical, meeting our needs on all levels.