Many of us have ongoing stories in our heads about how power is misused or somehow harmful. We have felt the effects in our private lives of the abuse of power. We also get to see the effects of the public misuse of power almost any time we tune in to the news. No wonder power has a bad reputation, especially among "spiritual" people. I’m writing this journal so that you and I can focus our God-given Power for our benefit and the blessing of others. Don’t you think the world is ready for loving, gentle, and thoughtful people to rise up in Power?"The ancient Hebrew writers made a practice of using numbers to symbolize ideas. Forty in their minds was a foursquare number suggesting the idea of a foundation for something to follow, an idea of completeness." Charles Fillmore