God is All. Just think of the concept of allness. No one can be separated from God's being. There's no corner of existence outside of or apart from His omnipresence— ever. We can see a hint of God's allness when we gaze into the golden heart of a blooming flower or rejoice in the soaring strains of a great symphony. Such expressions of God's glory open the windows of our willingness to see His goodness everywhere.
Everywhere. Let's take that word seriously. Can God's goodness be perceived at the workplace, in our governments, on the battlefield? Are beautiful moments possible only occasionally and in a limited number of places? Is God's goodness remote, glimpsed only when the surrounding clouds of adversity thin out momentarily, or when circumstance or chance temporarily lifts us out of prevailing doldrums? God's goodness is infinite and therefore right where we are. It can be discerned regardless of circumstances. Moreover, because man is God's expression, His image, we're actually inseparable from good now and always.
Yet what about history? It presents a clear-cut challenge to the idea of God, good, as All. Where was God across the centuries during times of oppression, famine, war, and plague? Did the infinite, eternal Principle take a vacation and return to find things all gone wrong in His absence? Or did God perhaps permit evil as part of His plan for man?
