Article November 6, 1978 Issue

Our living trust

M. JANE WATTS

In general terms a living trust is an arrangement by which an individual may set aside some of his assets, so that initially the income and later the principal may be paid to his beneficiaries.

Do we have the opportunity to benefit from a kind of living trust? Right now! Because God is eternal Life itself, we might think of ourselves as the beloved beneficiaries of our Father-Mother God's living trust. It is an irrevocable trust. Our dividends are vital, spiritual ideas, and they are ours to use each day. "God gives you His spiritual ideas," Mrs. Eddy writes, "and in turn, they give you daily supplies." And further on, "What a glorious inheritance is given to us through the understanding of omnipresent Love!"^{Miscellaneous Writings, p. 307;}

The most important benefits of this living trust are the ever-presence of God and our consciousness of this presence. We can never be bereft of that tender, infinite Love. Our relationship with God is intact. Mrs. Eddy explains this relationship's permanency: "God is our Father and our Mother, our Minister and the great Physician: He is man's only real relative on earth and in heaven."^{ibid., p. 151.} Then our inheritance reflects His goodness, the omniactive, inexhaustible divine Principle.