This higher understanding that God is limitless Life, and that as God’s offspring we each reflect that true Life, leads heart and mind more spiritually. In a very real sense it resurrects us.
We are truly resurrected—lifted out of a belief of life in matter—as we follow Jesus and live in accord with the reality he taught and proved of life in Spirit.
No matter what discordant situation we may face, prayer tunes our ear to better understand God, Soul, and thereby brings out more of the divine reality in our experience.
We can learn from these minor characters in the Easter story not to limit how transforming our own encounters with Christ can be for us and for others.
Love is ever active, so its rescuing, restoring activity is ongoing, unstoppable. It reaches, touches, comforts, every heart. It breaks through the deepest darkness.
Turning to God lifts us out of loneliness as it lifts our thinking out of darkness and despair to behold the ever-shining light of divine Love that is all around us.
I was learning to lean on God, divine Love, rather than my—or anyone else’s—preconceived view of how church should look or be. To vanquish self-righteousness. To be kind. To love as Jesus loved.
As I reached out to God for the inspiration that would transform self-righteous judgment to a sense of the divinely righteous judgment, a surprising question came to thought: “Are you willing to be the fruit of the Spirit?”
