Editorial April 6, 1992 Issue

Getting past the watchful dragons

Allison W. Phinney, Jr.

Sometimes it may feel like a struggle to believe the religious truths we feel we ought to believe.

If we fall into thinking this struggle is what religion is all about, we may be tempted to lose interest. It's as we realize that spiritual truth can be expected to be thoroughly true—as natural to us as daylight and even more so—that our sense of religion flowers. Then it begins to change from "something we probably ought to do more of" to "something we love and wouldn't want to be without."

Any genuine spiritual truth really does belong to us. It is native to us. A verse from Jeremiah in the Bible says it very specifically: "After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people."

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