Article January 15, 2018 ISSUE

Looking and longing for companionship?

Patricia Gantt Reiman

Companionship is right here, right now, present, evident, manifest, revealed. I promise; I guarantee it; I warrantee it. Now, I realize that’s definitely a radical stand. You might be saying: “How is that possible? I’m certainly not seeing it in my life right now.” I can identify with that. I unquestionably needed a change of view of companionship, so I started with what the Bible tells us—that “God is love” (I John 4:16). If we learn that our very source is God, divine Love, then we can begin to understand that as God’s ideas, there is a spiritual basis to all relationships. Our one true relationship is to our Maker, our creator, God, divine Love itself, as God’s spiritual image and likeness.

God’s creation includes all right ideas, and all of God’s ideas are always in right relation to each other, harmoniously. And inspired relationships and interactions in our lives can come as a natural outcome of acknowledging and understanding our relationship to God and appreciating all that His creation includes. “All things work together for good to them that love God” (Romans 8:28). This points to God’s law of Love governing right, harmonious, beneficial relating.

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