Article December 11, 2000 Issue

THE RICHEST MOMENT IN MY LIFE

Richard Requarth

People sometimes dream about gaining great wealth and traveling to exciting places. But to me, material wealth can't compare to spiritual treasures. These include feeling and knowing God's pure, intimate love for each one of us. Travel doesn't have to be confined to physical movement. It can be a movement in your consciousness—to a more spiritual viewpoint. Our companions along the way are God's thoughts, His angels. Such travel doesn't deprive you of anything good. Quite the contrary, it enhances your life. It brings healing. The richest moments of my life have come from specific spiritual insights I've gained—new views of God.

When I was a small child, my mother told me that my grandmother had died of cancer. She thought it would be wonderful if I could find a cure for this illness when I grew up. Little did I realize at the time that this would impel me to seek a spiritual remedy for the cure of disease.

When I went to college years later, I began majoring in premed. But by the end of my sophomore year, I'd dropped that major. One reason was that I'd begun reading the experiences of people who had been healed through prayer—healed of the very illness my mom had mentioned when I was a child. As a result, I'd begun to see that it's understanding God's nature, and our nature as His likeness, that enables us to heal disease mentally.

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