Article July 31, 1978 Issue

"Many mansions"

JUDITH ANN HARDY

Christ Jesus' loving assurance "In my Father's house are many mansions .... I go to prepare a place for you"^{John 14:2;} can have special meaning for anyone who must move to a new location. More than a comforting statement, these words of the Master's are a powerful truth, a spiritual law, which when understood, held to, and trusted can transform what might otherwise be a difficult experience into a happy adventure, nullifying any sense of interruption or loss.

Take it from our family of "corporate gypsies." We have moved eleven times now, including one move overseas. Through each experience we have learned to trust the Father's will of abundant good for us and His tender care in imparting it to us. And God has never failed to place us in a mansion. No hundred-room castles and hundred-acre estates, true; but when we have dwelt in the Father's house He has always provided us with a well-located dwelling place that has abundantly met the needs of our whole family, individually and collectively.

This dwelling in the Father's house is a mental state—an awareness of God's, Love's, omnipresence. We dwell in the consciousness of Love as we acknowledge and accept God and His reflection, man, as the reality of being; as we become conscious of Love's complete control of, constant care for, and continuous communication with His spiritual idea, man. In reality God's perfect plan—His perpetual unfoldment of unlimited spiritual good to His ideas—is all that is going on. Man is the individual reflection of the one all-knowing, all-loving, all-acting Mind. Therefore, continual harmony and progress—unconfined, intelligent, orderly, and satisfying—are all that can constitute man's existence. As we perceive these spiritual facts and acknowledge them as law in the human realm, we will see the Christ, or Truth, governing our entire experience.

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