Article September 24, 1984 Issue

On the road of reform—the realignment of thought and purpose with God

MARJORIE RUSSELL TIS

It's like coming home—returning once again to the consciousness of our blessed union with God. Meekly we retrace our steps out of the insanity of sin and back to the stability of a God-centered life.

Through cleansing tears of repentance, we turn to our Father-Mother; and His healing embrace gently, lovingly, leads us along the road of reform. Step by step the error is corrected, and we are redeemed. The false concept of oneself as a weak, sinful mortal drops away by degrees. The Christ-idea begins to shine in us, revealing our original innocence as God's spiritual offspring. We're on our way home.

Don't we all travel the road of reform from time to time? Our true selfhood, man, is always in harmonious unity with God as His reflection. But to human sense, in different ways and varying degrees we appear to lose sight temporarily of our unity with divine Mind. We fall for the temptation of self-will, intellectual pride, or sensuality, for example, and strike out on our own. In other words, we pursue some phase of the belief in a life and mind apart from God. Ultimately, and sometimes painfully, we must find our way back to reality. We must rectify each specific error by humbly acknowledging our sin, learning that there is no real pleasure in evil, and gaining a deeper love for good, God.

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