The following article, “Man’s Spirit Stands Indestructible” was written by Silent Unity and published in the Daily Word in September, 1945, and was presented by Licensed Unity Teacher Randy Fillmore during his May 28th lesson, “We Remember”.
“How can we have faith in prayers for protection when in spite of such prayers, given with faith and fervency, the telegram comes: “The War Department regrets to inform you….” Questions like this have come to Silent Unity during these war years. We have thought and prayed much about a reply to hearts heavy with grief. The worst response would be, “There has been a lack of faith.” The correct answer, the Truth must be based on the best understanding we have of God and life. Prayer has not failed because the one you love has fallen in some field. There is every reason to be grateful that you had faith to pray earnestly and faithfully for them, that you asked the spiritual support of Silent Unity, for to a far greater degree than you can ever know your prayers were felt, your love went out on wings of Spirit, your blessing brought your loved one added strength, stirred in them new qualities of mind and heart that made them stronger, braver, abler to perform their tasks. You cannot know the heights of spiritual stature they rose to, but you can know that they were lifted by your prayers; you cannot know their thoughts, their feelings, their reactions, but you can know that there was less fear, less downheartedness, more love and confidence and courage, more Godlike qualities expressed, because you prayed for them.
Prayer has not failed, and most certainly God has not failed. The way to sustained faith in God, prayer, and of understanding, we believe are the ideas we share with you here will help you take the larger view, will help you turn grief into a great comforting conception of life. God does not will that man suffer and die, nor does God save one person because their prayers are more to God’s liking and let another perish miserably. God is in the heart of every person. God is the eternal Spirit of Life. God is the eternal Spirit of good that cannot perish, cannot know defeat, cannot be extinguished through a thousand wars be fought, a million lives lost.
To believe in the justice of God, to believe in the love of God, we must see life as without beginning or end; see birth and death as but incidents in our eternal unfoldment. We must see ourselves not as limited human beings subject to accident and death, but as souls learning, growing, progressing in life toward understanding and true fulfillment.
All who participate in war – which we think of as a sort of mass outworking of the idea of self-destruction the human race must overcome – do not escape what seems to human sense to be the sad, cruel and crushing results of war. But all who participate are living souls and cannot in the highest sense lose anything, even life; for behind us and before us stretches all eternity. Nothing can come to us, nothing can happen to us than can in Truth separate us from life, from love, from God, or from our good; the Spirit in them always stands indestructible; always facing the light of the eternal day. Who shall separate us from the love of the Divine? Shall tribulation, anguish, persecution, famine, peril, or sword? Silent Unity affirms and continuously prays that neither death, nor life, or angels, nor things present, nor things to come shall be able to separate us from the love of God.”