Article October 8, 1979 Issue

The only real frame of reference is God's truth

MARY ANNE SHUTT

Children often have imaginative concepts of God. One child I talked with pictured God as a big smiling white cloud. Another child thought of Him as a dignified old man.

Am I really much more spiritually grown-up than these youngsters in my concept of God and His creation? I asked myself. Sometimes. When? That was the significant question for me. The answer: When I'm listening to what God is knowing about His creation.

There's quite a difference between looking at God from the frame of reference of personal sense and recognizing that God's thoughts, His truth, are the only real frame of reference there is. When I do the latter, I soon find myself listening. Such a listening attitude helps lift one to his true ness and being as the reflection of the one divine Mind. Every thought of this Mind—all its action—is reflected by spiritual man.

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