In divine Life, we have happiness that’s forever pure and secure and requires no ambition to attain it. It’s a quality we forever include and exude as God’s reflection.
Spiritual love opens our thought to God’s guidance and to ideas from God that create a community where everyone is valued as a unique, indispensable, spiritual expression of one universal Father-Mother. This builds a church of such focused love that it supports healing, including physical healing.
We, too, can see none but the perfect and sinless child of God as we stand with Christ, Truth, separate ourselves and others from the material scene, and pray more deeply to understand and insist on everyone’s inseparability from the infinite God, good.
Through prayer we can protect our young people by seeing them, and helping them see themselves, as whole, spiritual children of God, rather than vulnerable, immature mortals subject to danger and harm.
Jesus knew that the only way to “be not troubled” is to gain a truer idea of life as spiritual and of each of us as children of God rather than mortal men and women.
It’s vital not to be influenced by fears or mistaken educated beliefs—that is, not to accept as true that which is not true. Instead, we need to let God’s spiritual ideas permeate our thoughts and lives.
As we understand to some degree this scientific, spiritual law, it can begin to silence the fears that there are excessive demands on limited resources, which may then affect us negatively.
Even a child accepting destructive tendencies will respond to good, when prayerfully reminded that they are good and receptive to good because that’s how they are created by God.
An honest heart recognizes this and is motivated by Christ in loving unconditionally and universally because it knows there is no other way truly to love.
When the approach to individual growth stems from a divine basis, our efforts are more centered on spiritual discovery and on living what we actually already are. And we stop feeling that we can’t be happy until we fix all sorts of things about ourselves.
