When I expressed love to others instead of looking to others to love me, I lost the fear of being judged. God was revealing to me my true nature as His faultless reflection, secure in His—infinite Love’s—keeping.
I was able to make my way back to the parking lot, feeling as though I had just witnessed a miracle. But I knew from Sunday School that it hadn’t been a miracle; it had been proof of God’s saving presence and power.
As my future wife explained the concept of material existence as an incorrect understanding of a good God’s creation, I was intrigued enough to try to understand what she was talking about.
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.