Schwartz mostly offers wisdom
of a
worldly sort, but he approaches
things of the spirit when he suggests keeping an ongoing list
of the good
things that happen each day, big and small, in
order to inculcate an «attitude
of gratitude.»
The process - relational model
of God as the most extensive exemplification
of primordial creativity, with every
worldly occasion in its own process
of becoming; the process - relational concept
of God as the principle
of order channeling the world's becoming toward ever richer and more harmonious experience (the primordial nature); and the process - relational concept
of God's preservation
of every
worldly occasion in God's own everlasting becoming (the consequent nature), with each such occasion evaluated and positioned for its greatest possible contribution to the divine life — these perspectives on divine reality which process - relational thought claims to find exemplified in the very nature
of things are separately and together congruent with and supportive
of the biblical images and events which describe the «already» in inaugurated eschatology.»