Article August 19, 1985 Issue

No gaps in your life

DAVID C. KENNEDY

Having all we need sometimes seems an elusive hope. But it needn't be. We're complete because of who and what we really are, and an understanding of this spiritual fact fills out our lives with fresh purpose and fulfillment.

What we really are is reflection. Man is actually spiritual, the reflection, or image, of Spirit, God. As such, man expresses all the good that God includes—and God includes all good, because He is infinite good. To use an illustration: If a businessman wearing a three-piece suit stands in front of a mirror, his reflection isn't missing a pant leg. Similarly, man as God's image reflects God's completeness, and nothing is missing.

Our completeness, then, rests on a basis radically different from the material conception of completeness. To human sense, man is finite and physical, separate from Spirit, the divine source. Hence human sense presents man as inherently lacking and looks to a variety of finite sources for companionship, employment, home, supply, and so on. Holding on to this material conception is the equivalent of being asleep. That which is only an illusion, or dream, seems solid and real to us, while we're oblivious to the divine source and our real spiritual wholeness.

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