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The common ground we all share
Each and every one of us is designed to know God’s peace and to express His limitless love, intelligence, and goodness.
Originally published in The Christian Science Monitor’s Christian Science Perspective column February 5, 2024.
“It is interesting to note,” 20th-century British writer Penelope Fitzgerald once said, “that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely different outputs.”
Interesting, indeed—and it can also be frustrating! There’s much to be gained from a diversity of perspectives, but sometimes it can seem hard to look past entrenched positions and seek common ground. At times it may even seem like there’s simply no common ground to be had, no basis for a path forward that leads to progress and solutions.
But what if we dig deeper—going beyond a surface-level view of things to a spiritual perspective on how we relate to one another? From this standpoint, we all have something in common: We are God’s children, the sons and daughters of our shared divine Parent.
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