WELCOME February 28, 2000 Issue

To Our Readers

William E. Moody

I remember the faith I placed in my dad when I was a child. If he took my brother and me for a ride in our 1953 Buick, I knew we would be safe. I didn't understand the mechanics of an automobile or an internal combustion engine or anything about how to drive a car, but I was sure we would get where we were going—and we'd get home!

One time my dad rented a little boat at a place called Shell Beach to take us fishing. It was a big adventure for two small boys, and I wasn't afraid at all. I had absolute faith that Dad knew what he was doing with the boat, that he could find his way down the bayou, and, again, that we'd get home!

That kind of faith—pure, childlike—is important, as long as it isn't misplaced. And when we place our faith in God, we naturally do feel safe. Yet when faith is coupled with understanding, it becomes a much more powerful force for good in our lives and in the world. Faith in the absolute goodness of God, together with a growing understanding of divine reality, of the nature of God's creation as purely spiritual, of our own relation to God as His image and likeness—this is a healing force, a life-transforming power. It provides true safety, security, sanctuary. It always brings us home: to the love and beauty and warmth of God's embrace.

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