Have you ever been grateful for the help of another person? Perhaps you faced an emergency, couldn’t get on top of things alone, and a neighbor, friend or stranger stepped in with a helping hand and lifted you back up again?

I think of God as an ever-present help in my life, always there, always reliable, always knowing what the need is and supplying it. It gives me great comfort and confidence to know the ever-presence of divine Love and it makes life so much easier to live and enjoy with God’s ever-present help. I’ve never thought of what it might be like to live without this knowledge…until last Saturday.

After a lecture I gave in the Seattle area last week, a very thoughtful, smartly dressed and intelligent woman wanted to ask me several questions. She explained that she as agnostic. But she found my discussion during my lecture on “God is your source,” very intriguing. She had never considered a source outside herself before, ever. This blew me away! It shouldn’t have, because there are many people who don’t believe in a power outside themselves. But anyway, it was fascinating to watch her reason and wrestle, and start to consider the possibility of a higher power outside herself that had answers and solutions to problems she faced. She was willing to consider this a reality, but was having a very difficult time understanding how it worked.

“Do you tell God what you need?” She asked. “Do you have to give God the details? How does God know you even have a need? What about evil? How do you handle evil?” And the questions reeled on.

Our discussion was very positive and progressive, and by the end, she mused out loud, “Can you imagine going through your whole life, not aware that there was a greater source outside yourself, and then discovering it, and wondering how life could have been so much better if you had learned it earlier?” She was really talking out loud to herself. And I answered, “No I could not, but there is no better time than now to learn it.”

The lights were turning on in her thinking as she warmed up to a power greater than her. We parted friends and with smiles on both our faces.

It was a blessed day for both of us!