Amen Stephen, are you a saint?

What matters more the church or the people? The adulteration of the child within has killed more mental imagination in y'shack of what we could be ... than an old phe art like me can imagine (beyond reason, myth?)

If it is counterpoint to the market place and unequal sharing ... well it just won't work in their world. Such alien ideals are communist and you know that the "Capital" thinks of socialism ... then they ask what has happened to our social order and why do people run cars and airplanes into out people's spaces. Freudian urge for suicidal conquest? ID's enough to twist your mind into a brainstorm that doesn't exist to some because they wish there was no such thing. That's because they have no soul, and jealousy of such Gods will determine no other should have such a nonexistent entity as well.

Everyone leaves with an empty sac as consequence of relativity that the powers cannot comprehend. It is a repeat of Isaac and Soc rates view of the plate onick'd mind ... mostly empty in this place of dirt in space ... yah need a pain to learn anything and things are too good for those at the top of a system that is about to collapse and they still don't see it. The child of society is dead, no one loves it! It is just a consequence of a bunch of phoqah up in the haze of physical wealth that do not appreciate a soul that can think. Is that a metaphor for mind, psyche, and philosophy (love of thinking?) which is mostly discouraged in a mostly devoid building without thinking peoples, population paradigm? That seems to define Theo, and old word for the divine matter that doesn't exist ... space of mind?

I forget where it is but there is an old adage that says "What is a man that gains the whole world and loses his soul?" Would such a busy man have time to think, when controlling the whole world? Would he let anyone think? Now GWB has a great chance (quantum event) in after thought ... it like Pall of Rome followed the initial desire to control the hole thing in pun. Bo'sh in ancient Dead Sea's of language is a cinfused pyre/fire! Does anyone admire a past fire carrier for what he has burned, or the control of his blind passions? Would that be a skilled fire carrier, one who has a bent for intelligent bearing (bier) of the fire?

Should we all be like children? Is that a dead ringer for another old adage?

To put a quick answer to all your questions:

Save tomorrow, for tomorrow, think about today.

If a situation is beyond your control, don't even try to control it, doing so will make it worse.

No, we should not be like children. However we must keep the child like curiousity, and occasionally show child like reckless abandon.

Be not afraid.

Above all, don't allow aquisition of wealth/ things to become the driving force in your life. Instead always try to be better than who you are right now.

In conclusion give thanks to Creator God, for it is God who gave us what we have, and it is up to us to "fit all the pieces togther and make it work"

Oh and, no I'm not a Saint, just an optimist, and a visionary.

Above all ("aL" in Heb) is the infinite soul, does one assist its cultivation or present destruction? Feed my children; my Lam, my goats, mys sheep ... a sacred code?

If one cannot or will not understand the code of God ... an infinite love with light ... what then?

i like what you said about kids being yelled at or such at church. i know that kids are very impressionable at any age, and come on, if you deter someone at that age, they might never come back to church. ever. 

youth are more curious than anyone, but if we don't get welcomed and accepted, our questions may never be answered. we'll forget what we wondered and maybe even consider our questions stupid or wrong. who's to tell us otherwise? 

some people don't realize that youth are the future. for any congregation. for the entire united church. for the world.

right on stephen!