Editorial November 30, 2015 Issue

The spiritual ripening that goes on within us

David C. Kennedy

When fruit ripens, it matures. There’s a kind of ripening that is going on in many of us, too, a ripening that also involves maturing—the maturing of our spiritual understanding of God and of who we are as God’s child.

This ripening isn’t a personal push to achieve personal improvement. It’s a quiet, God-impelled spiritual development and unfolding—as a blossom unfolds—which reveals our eternal identity found in God, and the sweet, indestructible relation we have to our Father-Mother God.

At times I’ve been quite moved and spiritually uplifted by momentary glimpses of the fact that I have always been known to God, our Father-Mother, the divine Mind who has from eternity conceived me and all of His children. These glimpses have helped quiet a sense of fear about myself—about traits or physical conditions that seemed to be part of me as a mortal with a material history, but which in many cases have diminished or disappeared as I’ve grown spiritually.

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