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Tuesday, February 20

Superior Pleasures (reprise)

The deepest heart's cry of every human being that has ever existed starts off as this:

Here i am. Love me.

The fulfillment of the cry comes when we truly realize that the heart's cry of Almighty God is identical:

Here I am. Love Me.





You are not alone.





































I don't want this to be a distraction from the above but:

Is it possible to be moved past this, to move into true selflessness so that the heart is changed and begins to cry, "Here I am. Love Him." and secondly "Here I am. Love my brother." I hope that it is.

Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its fragrance be wafted abroad. Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.

Monday, February 19

The Big Ones

It seems to me that all the things that matter; the big ones, function in every area of our being. Here's what I mean:

I think that Love is probably the easiest to use as an example.
The components of a person are the body, soul and spirit. World conscious, self conscious and God conscious.

Physical love is quite obvious. We hug, we kiss, we speak etc. all to love one another. We use our bodies to serve and sometimes just being present is enough to say, "I love you." It is also clear that you can physically love someone without engaging any other part of yourself (although it will inevitably effect the other parts of you)

The soul is made up of the mind, the will and the emotions. Emotional love is what we most often think about when we say "love" but sometimes love is a cognitive process. When you weigh the good things and bad things about spending time with a individual or when you compare someone to your "list" (I know that some people have them) you are loving with your mind. Also, sometimes love is a choice. You can willfully choose to love someone, if you dare. You can be disgusted and put out and brought to tears by someone and still choose to give your time, or your money or your affection to them.

The spirit can only love if it is loved first. The spirit can only love as it is brought to life by contact with the Spirit of Love through faith in Christ.


The same is true of faith:
One can have a faith that starts in the mind,"I believe that I should eat corn flakes" then moves to the will, "I will eat corn flakes" and then the body completes the act of faith (eating the corn flakes). The emotion of faith is rarely called that but it is there, under names like "encouraged" and "edified". That's the feeling of faithfulness. Of course, faith can be spiritual as well but it again is a gift that comes through encountering the Holy Spirit through a mental, willful and then physical process of faith. We chose Him, in the Spirit, because He first chose us.

These are only two examples, but it seems to apply to many if not all of the big ones especially the big three; faith, hope, love but also fear, courage and I'm sure that there are others. Certainly there are emotions that don't have corollaries just as there are physical acts that don't relate to emotions but it seems that things that are expressed on higher links are expressed lower as well. Every emotion has a physical component. Every spiritual encounter has an emotional component. And that's all I have to say about that... for now.

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