One of my favorite authors is Peter Kreeft. The professor says, “A standard joke-shop item is little black box: when you move lever from ‘off’ to ‘on’, it whirrs, blinks a red light, and opens a trap door in its top, allowing a hand to come out and shut its lever off, then drop back into box. Every part of box is practical—it has a purpose beyond itself—the battery sends energy along wire; wire takes it to a gear; gear turns; it opens top; and so on—but there is absolutely no reason or purpose to box as a whole. That is why it is so funny.

“But a life like that, a life composed only of practical things that serve some other end but with nothing in it worth having for its own sake—the true, good, beautiful—such a life is not funny but pitiful.”

That truth smacks some of us between eyes. We are going about life, minding our own business, paying our dues, and priding ourselves as to our pragmatism. But there is nothing more to us. We aren’t reaching beyond ourselves into thoughts of eternity. We don’t deal with that because it’s complicated and stresses our comfort zones of practicality. To really know yourself, you must seek wisdom. And wisdom is beyond you. It is in God alone.

If we do not look beyond appearance and seek out true reality, we are cowards and living only for today. “If we are satisfied with only what makes us happy, we will never know whether we are being deceived about who we are and what level of our being is being satisfied,” states Kreeft. It’s something to think about.

Keep faith. Stay course. Jesus is coming soon.

Pastor Tdash

Here is harmony sought by each of us, an orchestration of many notes into a melodious symphony of consciousness.

How do we harmonize our own aspects? We need only listen to each individual note--body, mind and heart--so that these may naturally move into a vibrant, resonant chord felt and heard throughout body of Creation.

Our souls live and breathe in our body-temples, which seek purity and wholeness. Each body, given a voice, will say whether we are honoring or dishonoring it. Only close your eyes and ask whether this food, drink, word or deed, given out or received, brings good or ill to self or another. The body, mind, heart and soul, asked this question, will each speak its truth.

If you don't get an answer right away, ask again. Trust answer to come and it will. Perhaps it already does come to you without asking. If not, your asking will enable it to speak in warning or in joy, in perfect timing. So we grow in ourselves and resonate with our light-filled world of beauty and order.

When we call upon our thoughts, feelings and body sensations to guide us into harmony and peace, we open fully to spiritual intuition which exists to comfort and guide our soul growth. In listening to voice of soul, we begin to receive impressions through web of life connecting us with animals, plants, nature spirits, angels and every other aspect of Greater Whole, whether seen or unseen.

For peace to begin with me, it must be in harmony with Oneness of all creation, so that each note may give and receive in equal measure. Only in this musical cooperation will we have a vibrant body-temple, happy families, healthy governments and global peace.