I needed to fix my gaze on the divine reality that God’s infinite, ever-present care comforts and blesses. This truth helped strengthen my understanding that health and freedom are actually permanent.
God is not a mysterious, unknowable, distant Being, but identifiable and knowable and always at hand. Getting to know God through the synonyms for Him brings to light what the divine presence means to us.
Through studying the Bible and Mary Baker Eddy’s writings, we come to discern and increasingly demonstrate a harmony that’s already ours rather than feeling dependent on a steely personal grit to secure health and well-being.
Caulking our ark doesn’t mean sealing ourselves off from others or the concerns that they face. It’s about following the Bible’s instruction to keep out fear.
Rather than letting our own and others’ lives be molded by thoughts and images of immaturity or decline, we can start with an awareness of God as not only the origin of all things but as Life itself, the ongoing basis of all existence.
Vital church is more than a passive place where we simply get inspiration and go about our lives. As many are rediscovering, the full blessing of church involves giving—and continuing to give even when it is resisted or rejected.
Church is spiritual, and is structured and supported by God. It isn’t subject to demographics or cultural trends, which change and shift, or skepticism about organized religion. It is eternal.
Wanting to make a difference for humankind is more than a positive outlook on the world. It’s the result of the spiritual impulse in human consciousness called the Christ.
Even when healings don’t happen as quickly as we would like, there should never come a time when we stop insisting on the fact of God’s love for us, even the all-presence and power of divine Love itself.
