By Michelle Taylor

The Law of Perpetual Transmutation states: “Everything is either coming into physical form or going out of it.” (Hidden Treasure, Leslie Householder). In other words, everything around us is either being created or disintegrating—nothing stays stagnant.

So what does that have to do with our mindset and the way we think? Everything.

Everything that exists in the physical world began as a thought in someone’s mind. Thoughts are like seeds. We get to decide whether to plant them or not, where we plant them, and whether we nurture them or let them wither. At any point in that process, the growth of the seed—of the dream—can be delayed, redirected, or even stopped altogether.

Often, we move through life without realizing that we’re living according to laws that impact every part of our experience. People lived under the law of gravity long before they understood it. But once it was named and understood, humanity learned how to work with it—and that’s when flight became possible.

It’s better to know the laws and partner with them than to be unaware and feel like life is happening to you.

I’ve had many experiences with the Law of Perpetual Transmutation. Some of my dreams and desires were stalled or altered simply because I didn’t understand the law. But now, I use this law to help me keep going—especially when doubt, delay, or discouragement creep in.

Several years ago, some friends of ours renewed their wedding vows in a Jewish ceremony. At the end of the event, each couple was given a mezuzah. I learned that a mezuzah contains a prayer and is placed on a doorpost, meant to be seen every time you go in and out—serving as a daily reminder of what’s important.

While we aren’t Jewish, I loved the idea. I decided to write our own personal prayer and place it inside. I gathered the kids, and together we wrote down what we were grateful for on one side of the paper, and on the other, what we hoped for.

Our prayer was simple: we wanted to buy a home—with grass, trees, and natural springs. We also wanted Dad to get a promotion at work. We placed the mezuzah on our doorpost, letting it remind us of our hopes each time we walked past.

A few months later, my husband got a promotion. The new job was 30 minutes away from the main office, in a valley we used to drive through on the way to visit family. Every time we passed through it, we’d say, “One day we’ll live here.”

Now, with this promotion, it was time to find a home in that very valley. There was just one problem: it was a rural area, far from town, with very few rentals. Buying was the only real option—but we had no savings, our credit wasn’t great, and we’d been through a bankruptcy just a few years before. We had no idea how we’d pull this off, but we only had a few months to make it happen.

I started calling loan companies, realtors, and homeowners, trying to find anyone who would consider rent-to-own or an alternative option. The responses weren’t encouraging—credit scores were too low, no rentals available, no sellers interested in creative financing.

I started to feel defeated. But something inside told me to keep going. So I did.

One day, I came across a loan company I hadn’t tried before. The woman on the phone said they had a program we might qualify for—even with our credit score. It wasn’t an easy process. There were a lot of ups and downs along the way. But we kept moving forward.

And the loan came through—just in time.

We moved into a home that had everything we’d written on that little slip of paper. Grass. Trees. Natural springs. Even the timing aligned: from the moment we wrote that prayer and placed it in the mezuzah to the day we moved in, it had been about a year and a half.

In that time, we moved once and had a baby. Life got busy, and honestly, I forgot all about the mezuzah. But as we packed to move into our new home, I found it again. And when I read what we had written, I was overcome with the realization of God’s hand in all of it.

At any point, I could have let discouragement stop me. But I didn’t. I kept taking the next step. And because I kept moving forward, those desires came into physical form.

The Law of Perpetual Transmutation was at work—whether I understood it or not. But once I recognized it and chose to work with it, everything began to change.

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