To think of God as Soul instead of imagining soul as personal and subject to the vagaries of material conditions is to see kindness, provision, inspiration—all sorts of spiritual resources—as present, even when those good gifts might not seem immediately apparent.
Ever thought you had your plans all figured out, only to discover you were headed in the wrong direction? This author did and struggled to know what to do. Turning to God for guidance wasn’t her first thought, but she was so glad when she did.
I was feeling both divided and fully justified in my feelings of outrage and disbelief that this church, founded on divine Love, could do something that I felt was so unloving.
My concept of myself as a suffering mortal trapped in a physical body was gone, and I knew that I was the spiritual child of God only, free from mortality with all its discords and limitations.
Our lives are not reliant on material processes but on eternal, spiritual unfoldment, peeling away limited, material thinking and revealing the universal presence and supremacy of Spirit, God, and His perfect creation.
