Article March 27, 1995 Issue

Advancing years and spiritual progress

Gay Bryant

In springtime we see evidence of new growth and renewal. The countryside undergoes a quiet revolution. Spring flowers, symbols of life, point to the vitality of all that moves at the impetus of God. It's natural for them not to resist progress.

Whatever your circumstances may be, you too can expect progress, a continual unfoldment and development of good in your experience. Advancing years cannot mar the beauty and majesty of this growth, for it is spiritual. While the human sense of progress relates at best to change, true progress is the effect of a deeper, underlying movement, the impetus of Spirit, God. A realization of the nature of Spirit—forever new, forever active, forever alive—and of man, the reflection of Spirit, becomes apparent in increased harmony in our lives.

Spiritual progress inevitably leads to the abandonment of anything that would impinge on spiritual growth. Old thought patterns must be outgrown. Fears, doubts, and grievances, which once seemed stubbornly a part of our makeup, fall away and are replaced as the buddings and growth of a healthier, happier, more spiritual outlook transform our thoughts and actions.

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