Story by Lehan Winifred Ramsay

I want to talk about faith. I’ve thought a lot about it these last months. It was my niece who got me thinking. We were painting together, some mistake turned out unexpectedly well. “Lucky!” I exclaimed. “You might call it lucky”, she said. “I call it God’s help”. Thus clearing up for me something I had never been able to understand. How does faith WORK?

Faith is like a reprogramming, so that instead of noticing the things that are going wrong, you start to take notice of what is going right. And it has one brilliant feature. Once you start to notice how many things are going right, you start accumulating fortune. Because you don’t take any of those fortunate things off your list, you just keep adding to them. All that success makes you stand taller, smile more, be more assertive, and if you are more confident and assertive, you will be more successful. So whatever it is that you have chosen to have faith in – whether it is your own luck, or the hand of God, or the course you have started, or some kind of guru – is going to look good, very good. The better it looks, the more faith you’re going to have.

But speaking of gurus, the proclamation of all the online newspapers I’ve seen today that The Future is Tablet. These days we could be talking about another medical breakthrough, but it is of course The Hand of Jobs of which we speak. I have total faith that anyone who can get that much publicity for their product is speaking with the authority of a Higher Being anyway. But I note that Apple didn’t declare their faith in this Future until the goal was well within sight. Thankyou, all the companies that contributed, and all the consumers that bought, all the people who wanted an easier format, for making it possible for Apple to rule the Electropolis.