Most of us ask the people we love to be everything: our comfort, our acceptance, our teacher, our steady ground. Then we feel it sharply when they run out of patience, of time, of being there.
They run out because they're human. Even at our best, our qualities swing: peaceful at breakfast, frayed by evening. The course this comes from offers a different idea: one being who holds every good quality, love, peace, patience, wisdom, at full strength, and holds it constantly. Not a force or a concept, but someone you can actually relate to. The course calls this being the Supreme, or God, and is relaxed about other names.
It suggests relating to that being in familiar ways: a parent's acceptance, a friend who is never too busy, a teacher in each day's mistakes, a guide through what blocks you. The hard part is honest: there's no face to see and no voice to hear. The course is sure it's real. It still asks you to try it, not take it on trust.