Article April 8, 2019 Issue

Lean on Love’s presence

Deb Hensley

I love knowing that a pure, spiritual idea can’t be broken. It can’t be hurt. It can’t be invaded or occupied by fear, or by human beliefs, either. Man is God’s spiritual idea, His image and reflection; this means we are so safe.

We live in divine Love, God. And Love is more than a sometimes presence. It’s more than something that just sort of shows up at a certain location at some specific time when you need it—as helpful as that might seem. Rather, Love is presence itself. Think air. Or water, if you’re a fish! Divine Love isn’t a limited thing that’s sometimes here and sometimes not. We live within Love’s ever-presence.

How do we hold on to the truth of this, though, when bad things happen, seeming to come out of nowhere? Here’s something I’m continually learning: Any sense of malevolent presence, whatever form it appears to take, is actually a matter-based suggestion that there is something besides divine Love. But Love is supreme all-presence, and each one of us, in our identity as God’s spiritual idea, soundly and safely expresses Love’s wholeness. As God’s idea, man is protected and not subject to chance or random evil. God, good, is the only Mind, the only power, so there is no evil mind. As we understand this, we see increased evidence of this fact.

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