Everyone needs a spiritual foundation on which to build the superstructure of each new day. We build this foundation as we consciously affirm spiritual facts and alertly deny whatever is unlike God.
One of these spiritual facts is the ongoing relationship between God and man: a relationship that is wholly spiritual and within which we find our true identity. Day by day we are wise to learn more of our spiritual nature and to keep thought in line with it. Learning how to pray with Christlike precision and inspiration enables us to maintain this consciousness of our spirituality. Such prayer helps us to find God's holy secret place and to dwell there.
God, and man's relationship to Him, constitute the very substance of our spiritual foundation. It is logical that we start our prayerful building—the spiritualization of our thought—with a correct sense of what God is and what man, His reflection, is. In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy gives this comprehensive description of God: "The great I am; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence." Science and Health, p. 587
