Editorial August 17, 1981 Issue

Unclogging our progress

NATHAN A. TALBOT

For the man of God's creating, progress, the continuous unfolding of good, is natural; in fact, inevitable. The reason is that God is Spirit. And Spirit implies infinity, immortality. The eternal unfoldment of being could be described as Spirit's irreversible law of progress.

Progress can be natural for human activities too. But sometimes it gets clogged up. Perhaps our prayer for things to open up has been based on the assumption that God requires a positive, forward movement in human affairs. True, that can be a helpful premise for prayer. It can aid in nudging us past obstacles that would slow us down.

But even more rapid headway comes when we understand that God's demand for advancement actually has to do with pure spirituality. Since God is Spirit, real forward movement is spiritual instead of material. In fact, an aim at material gain can be self-defeating. But an aim at spirituality not only is divinely fulfilling; it also results in forwarding day-to-day activities.

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