And it works in every way, even in the most marvelous things like this, for instance. My friend, he’s here tonight. He didn’t think he could make it tonight, but I got his letter this week. He said, “Last week, having heard you over the years and having received a hunger from your interpretation of the Scripture, what we are told in the Scripture, in the book of Amos, ‘I will send a famine upon the world. It will not be a hunger for bread or a thirst for water but for the hearing of the word of God.’” When that hunger comes upon you, not a thing in this world can satisfy you, but an experience of God. Now he said, “I am a stockbroker and things have been very, very slow since the bottom of 1970. The market has risen, but people with money will not come into it because, undoubtedly, they were burned prior to this. Yet the market is really healthy today, it’s growing and growing and growing. Yet, I must confess things have been slow. I have a wife, I have a daughter who is a minor, I have obligations in life. And yet, in spite of the fact, I should really think of these things first, the hunger for an experience of God supersedes all other hungers. And so, I went home from your meeting and I said to myself, ‘I commune with myself’—for you taught me to believe that the self, the depth of my own being is God, that sensible awareness that is God. I said, ‘God, you sent this hunger upon me, a hunger for an experience of you. Give me, I said in the 86th Psalm, show me a sign of your favor, just a sign of your favor.’664 ¶8