THE RICHEST MOMENT IN MY LIFE

Richard Requarth

People sometimes dream about gaining great wealth and traveling to exciting places. But to me, material wealth can't compare to spiritual treasures. These include feeling and knowing God's pure, intimate love for each one of us. Travel doesn't have to be confined to physical movement. It can be a movement in your consciousness—to a more spiritual viewpoint. Our companions along the way are God's thoughts, His angels. Such travel doesn't deprive you of anything good. Quite the contrary, it enhances your life. It brings healing. The richest moments of my life have come from specific spiritual insights I've gained—new views of God.

When I was a small child, my mother told me that my grandmother had died of cancer. She thought it would be wonderful if I could find a cure for this illness when I grew up. Little did I realize at the time that this would impel me to seek a spiritual remedy for the cure of disease.

When I went to college years later, I began majoring in premed. But by the end of my sophomore year, I'd dropped that major. One reason was that I'd begun reading the experiences of people who had been healed through prayer—healed of the very illness my mom had mentioned when I was a child. As a result, I'd begun to see that it's understanding God's nature, and our nature as His likeness, that enables us to heal disease mentally.

I would say that one insight in particular provided the richest moment of my life. It was the sudden realization that, despite what the five senses tell us, our life is actually in and of God. Therefore life is spiritual, and what is material is not truly substantial. Even though it seems to be all there is, matter does not really exist in God's creation.

Every difficulty, every sickness and pain, every sign of death—even death considered in its broadest sense, like the death of a person's joy—has at its root some materially based view of existence. As we come to understand the significance of the fact that God is All, and realize that we are right now entirely His spiritual likeness, we find that we're healed of disease and suffering. The steps we need to take today become apparent, so that this promise from the Bible's book of Revelation can be part of our own lives: "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away" (Rev. 21:4).

Jesus said, "Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matt. 4:17). As I understand it, we can allow our thoughts

It was the sudden realization that our life is actually in and of God.

to be changed by the saving power of God—changed from a matter-based view of life to a Spirit-based view. That's how we can find heaven here on earth in regeneration. And healing. What's called for is a step-by-step relinquishing of our faith in matter and a strengthening of our love for and faith in Spirit.

Every healing I've had as a result of this approach has helped me prove that God is truly the supreme power of the universe.

A glimpse of heaven right here on earth. An insight into the spiritual, flawless creation of God. These are the richest experiences anyone can have. And they don't require giving up anything that's good. Instead they show that all good comes from God. And it's ours to enjoy here and now.

Richard Requarth
Mesa, Arizona

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