The story has been told of a little child who often sought to join a group of older girls and boys playing nearby in a fenced yard. Invariably her efforts to open the gate to the yard and enter drew this taunt from some one of the children: "Who says you can come in here?" For a long time the child permitted this unloving and unjust decree to deprive her of the joy of playing with the others. She would retire to her own yard, obviously puzzled, but harboring no resentment, and watch the merry frolicking of the other children.
One day, as she tried the gate again, it dawned upon her to challenge the query with one of her own. "Who says I can't?" she asked quietly in return. And the story goes that the barriers were lowered without further ado and that the child thereafter enjoyed many hours of happy play.
This simple illustration is typical of the false laws with which mortal mind would close the gates of harmony to us at every turn. It is necessary for us to question repeatedly mortal mind's claims to reality and establish the fact of their powerlessness. Then, when inharmony would close the gates of heaven to us with the query, "Who says you can come in here?" we can answer immediately, "Who says I can't?"
