Friday, May 6th

This is the Father's loving purpose in the creation of His world: to enfold into His loving embrace all that He has created. In the human situation He looks for partnership in progress of the souls He has created for joy and for fulfilment . All the many and varied types and likenesses and differentiations matching those in the natural world but having a rational mind and the capacity for mindful love and vicarious suffering - these He has created in hope , and He looks for fulfilment in partnership and in joy.

If only the wayward and perverse would see this pattern they would turn and embrace the Father's loving purpose. But the light of truth is obscured, partly through their perversity and blindness but also because of the failure of those who call themselves the children of the Father to let His light shine through them, His love reach out beyond them. So is His loving purpose obscured and lost to many.

Let all who profess faith in a power beyond the human, beyond the laws of nature, call upon that power however they identify. The same power will reach out to lead and draw together in love all who purposefully and with commitment proceed thus, for He is the same loving Father who has created them.