When life seems particularly full and happy, we may want it to last forever. No parting, no change should mar such completeness, we unconsciously believe. Yet the contented scene eventually does change. A material environment is inevitably altered. And the happiness so casually based on human circumstances is challenged.
By the very nature of matter, change is certain. However, grief, loss, and emptiness are not inevitable. We can find protection by establishing a correct concept of the one creator, God, and of man in His image.
Prayer that transforms human concepts with the spiritual facts is not a morose preparation for death or change. Quite the opposite. It means becoming conscious now of what divine Life really is and how it is expressed in our lives. We can expand our understanding of God as Life until no human loss can shake our spiritual conviction that Life and its expression are forever complete and unchanged. Gaining this understanding is much like building a bridge before you need to cross a river.
