When Jesus encouraged to address prayers to "our Father, who is in Heaven", He certainly did not mean to reveal the place where God is located physically. God does not abide "up there", because the Presence is everywhere, even in our hearts and minds. The Master wanted to emphasise - to those who have grown out of childish concepts of the Deity - that God works toward people as the Principle of active, providing, and sustaining love.

The Principle works at all times and in all circumstances. Answering to Pharisees who wanted to limit God's activity to a certain period, Jesus said: "My Father works until now, and I work" (John 5:17).

The Principle is generous and overflowing. "The river of God is full of water" (Psalm 65:9). It is not enough, then, to say that divine supply is equal to a human demand. It exceeds even our highest demands. There is no lack in God; there can be only insufficient appropriation of divine abundance. If we see the things rightly, we know that God is more willing to give than we are willing to receive.

Hearing this, someone may ask: "But if God is really more willing to give than I am willing to receive, why do I need to go through all my challenges? Why they can't be removed instantly and effortlessly?"

Since the humanity started to believe in God, these questions were asked many times by great prophets, sages, and common people; and I do not imply to have the final or the best answer. My point of view implies an assumption that human beings by their nature are not static, but dynamic. As people, we grow and develop. We evolve. And divine provision is meant to help us in our evolutionary process, not to deliver us from it.

There is a part of us which looks for shortcuts and easy ways. But it is not Christ within, it is our wounded and darkened ego. As we heal our ego and begin to give expression to our Christ nature, we discover the beauty of process.

We learn to appreciate the beauty of growth, the beauty of work, the beauty of overcoming challenges, the beauty of accepting responsibility. We are truly happy and satisfied not when we arrived, but when we move forward.

Contrary to expectations of some believers, answers to our prayers most often do not come as finished products. This would make us weak, shallow, and self-centered. Rather, God gives us: