Resilience is a concept we’re hearing more about these days —whether in relation to the pandemic, to weather events, or to other adverse situations. The Christian Science Monitor, for example, has a series titled “Finding Resilience: Adapting in the face of adversity.”

Accounts of resilience can be encouraging as we learn of people who have gone through great hardship and emerged stronger for it. But what if these stories make us feel that it’s all well and good for others to experience great progress or renewal, but that it’s just not possible for us?

Actually, instances of genuine resilience are evidence of a quality that is innate to all of us as children of God, the divine Mind that is Love itself. Resilience, wherever it is found, is enabled by the grace that flows abundantly from God. This is true resilience, grounded in the spiritual fact that God is our divine Parent, who has bestowed grace and favor upon each of us because each of God’s children is precious in His sight.