In other words, don't lax your faith into forgetting your "first love", the Treasure of your heart, the Creator God.

 

The Ever-Faithful Incarnate Word never forgot his first love. 

 

It's Christmas Eve...It's Christmas Eve...

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Post Edited (One Love) : 12/24/2008 9:40:18 AM (GMT-6)

 

God bless all the hustlers and grinders in this global recession this year.  (That's all of us!)

 

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

"I love, therefore I am in I Am."

 

Jeff: Amen, D!

 

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Listen to this. 

Question after watching: What "gift" does the Uncreated Creator desire to give us the most?

Possible hints:
1) "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

2) "But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say, for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you."

3) "Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me."

4) "And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days."

5) " 'For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws."

6) "So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; those who seek find; and to those who knock, the door will be opened. Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"

 

7)  "For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit."

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

"I love, therefore I am in I Am."

I gladly accept any criticism for commenting on the above while only having viewed the first part--wo where the 'guy' has gotten to the bottom of the excalator and talked a bit more. So this is really a comment on something else that has been in the news that relates. The topic was 'spirituality.'

 

The cartoon above contrasted what one 'believes' with what one experiences. Some good in that, but some danger too.

 

Scientists are finding a spot in the brain that seats spiritual feelings.

 

I pull the riegns in and remind myself that 'spirituality' is reality being lived in accordance with the spirit. Obedience, peace, crosses, etc.  The science article was off base.

 

I susspect the cartoon of being off base too -- for the same reason, or as an example of that reason.

 

Nuf said.

 

Pax (life in the Holy Spirit)

 

Spirituality/salvation is to be found in the church -- expecially the Divind Liturgy!

 

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God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

"I love, therefore I am in I Am."

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

"I love, therefore I am in I Am."