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What if goodness was just natural?

Circumstances can't alter God's goodness.

From the July 2001 issue of The Christian Science Journal


It's an almost standard human trait to seek good, though most of us have our own notion of what good is.

From a spiritual point of view, true, pure good equals God. "God is natural good," Science and Health says, "and is represented only by the idea of goodness; while evil should be regarded as unnatural, because it is opposed to the nature of Spirit, God." Science and Health, p. 119.

We might experience God's goodness in an emerging feeling of peace and well-being. Increasingly accepting such good as natural, we struggle less to grasp it as though it were outside the realm of the usual and we'd be lucky just to get a small piece of it. We're also not so surprised when a little good, or a lot of it, comes along.

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