More and more couples are ready to work at making marriage work. This writer and his wife find that an understanding of God and of His spiritual creation can bring success to that effort.
It sometimes can seem as though moral demands are what stand between us and what we want. But actually they are what defend us against what we don't want, including loss and emptiness.
Whether we are thinking about something as different as choosing a product or falling in love, we speak of looking for "the real thing," the genuine article. But how do we recognize what is true, what is worth having?
Humanity's urgent concern about immunity from epidemics has prompted some changes in life styles. But if there is to be lasting safety, we may need to make changes as well in our view of the nature of life itself.
For this writer, the concept of God as our Father-Mother is no neat abstraction. Through an understanding of this fact, she was healed of traumatic memories of a battered childhood.
