To advance ourselves to an evolutionary way of thinking, a shift is
necessary for all who have been influenced by the Judeo-Christian
tradition: away from imagining ourselves defiled from infancy with a
so-called Original Sin. Every child—in an evolutionary world—
is a blessing, is thoroughly good and a wondrous invention, just
the way we ourselves instinctively look at infant children. O'Murchu
puts it this way: "The perceptual shift—perhaps the first step
in the conversion process—is to understand our universe in terms
of blessing rather than curse."

The familiar biblical narrative also suggests to us that God is
exterior and located in the heavens above. Almost instinctively in
prayer we turn our faces upward, look toward the sky, and beg for a
downward suffusion of enlightenment or strength. But Evolutionary
Faith reminds us that "divine inspiring energy does not emanate
from some external heavenly realm, but from within the depths of the
creative process itself. The creative energy is an unambiguously
inspirited and inspiring life-force."

In other words, we find the spirit of God everywhere and can speak
to it and pray to it there—if we have situated ourselves firmly
within the evolutionary story and realize the presence everywhere of
a God alive and available. If evolution happened and is happening,
then God—the spirit mother of life, the spirit father of creation,
the loving Mystery behind and within everything—is at work in it,
around us, near us, within us.