EARS TO HEAR and EYES TO SEE
There are two major dimensions we participate in daily. One is physical and temporal the other is spiritual and eternal.

Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfullness, Gentleness and Self-Control come from the spiritual realm and originate in the Spirit of Life. All of these things can manifest through our physical bodies. Pride, Bitterness, Envy, Lust, Hate, Fear, Malice, Greed, and the like also come from the spiritual realm and originate in our soul and in the spirit of death. These things can also manifest through our physical bodies. When a person decides to step out of the dark and into the Light they are choosing to surrender their soul to the one who called himself the Truth. When the Truth is accepted and pursued after daily an amazing thing happens. The spirit of death and its power to keep us in darkness is broken and the Spirit of Life comes inside of us and works his Way in us.

We must realize that our physical bodies are a temporary house for our real person-our soul, and that this physical body will die. Our soul, however, will not end but will continue to be concious and aware for eternity. The most critical to understand is that what we surrender to and believe during this short time in the body will determine where we spend eternity. We are at a crossroad. If we live for ourselves in the dark while in the body we can also expect our soul to exist in eternal spiritual darkness when our body dies. But if we accept Love and his forgiveness for what we have been doing in the dark we can expect to exist for eternity in the Light. We can expect to have eternal Life which is dependent on what the Truth has promised. We must use our minds and hearts to identify with the unseen and spiritual side of us. We must hear and see with our hearts.

There is something in all of us that says there is more to this physical life. Our consciences confirm that and the great thing is that the Truth affirms it as well. The reality is that eternity has been written on our hearts. We are free to choose, act, think and believe what we want and next to eternity our 75 years in the crossroad is inexplicably significant.

SILENCE AND SOLITUDE
It's more than ok to be quiet and it's wise to be silent. Hidden within the word 'silent' is another word that can help us know what's True in this world. What this word defines is a discipline that will help us to really know someone.

Who do you have in your life that L-I-S-T-E-N-s to you. Who responds in context to what you are saying? Who doesn't compete for the next word? Who really knows you? We can know many people but we will really know and understand the one's who listen. In our day silence is now perceived as a threat and solitude a waste of time? Could this be the primary reason we don't know the Way to live, the Truth that pierces the darkness, and the Life that will last for eternity.

The Light reveals that those individuals who have come to know Love have listened to what the Truth said. The Light also reveals that no one can really know Love except those who receive the Truth into their lives.

Love says, "Be quiet and still so you can really know me. Stop listening to yourself and what other people are saying and listen to what the Truth has already said about me. By doing this you will really get to know me. Go spend some time alone and be silent before me. I really want to show you my Way. Don't be threatened by the silence because I am Love. I forgive you. Don't feel alone in solitude because I am right there. I am a Spirit and you can only hear me if you listen with your heart. I love you and I forgive you."

ON LOVE
We are meant to receive and give Love and we can die spiritually, emotionally, and physically if we choose not to learn the Truth about what Love really is.

Love is our greatest need but there is great confusion about what Love really is. Many people are searching for it in places it can never be found.

What and where is Love? Many things are given, experienced, or expressed in our world today in an attemp to show love, but there is still an incredible longing for real Love to be experienced and known. If Love is not found in emotions, in the act of sex, in the giving away of money or gifts, or even in the words 'I love you' then how can it be known and given away? How is it possible that doing, feeling, and saying these things can still leave us empty and longing for Love?

Quieting our hearts and minds and turning from all that distracts us from the Truth will bring about the necessary condition required to know Love. What distracts us from learning the Truth and living in the Light? A comfortable lifestyle? A fear of justice? A seared conscience? A desire for more? What distracts you?

Love is powerful enough to free us from our pride and spiritual blindness. Love wants to reveal himself but he can't be made up, redefined, or intellectualized. Love is tough and uncompromising. Love endures nails in hands and feet, thorns in forhead, whipping on back. Love is tough and always does what is best for the other person even when it is undeserved. A hard and sobering Truth is that this Love can be rejected. An incredible and freeing Truth is that this Love went far enough for each of us so we could have the option to step out of the dark and into the Light.

Love is the reason why the Light shines in the darkness. Without Love there is no humility. Without humility there is no surrender. Without surrender there is no salvation. Without salvation there is only spiritual death in darkness. Without Love there is no kindness. Without kindness there is nothing that leads us to repentance and sorrow for the things we do in the dark. Without Love there is no mercy but only fear of perfect justice.

The Truth is that Love is a Spirit. The Truth says, 'I am the image of the Spirit of Love and my Way is meant to be received into your life so that I may be known by you personally and so you can be known by me personally---forever.'