What We Really Want

Download or read book What We Really Want written by Rev. Shirley Leighton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Faith of the Future is designed in an attempt to free you from the prison of belief in dogmatic systems which strip you of your personal power. The goal of all religions began with the desire in the hearts of men and women to know God and to feel His protection from higher dimensions. Sadly enough, many of the resulting dictates have reduced the human family to slavery, while satisfying the egocentric needs of church leaders. Your pleas of help may rarely appear to reach any kind of assistance, but the truth is that we are always divinely connected, protected, and directed. Believe it! What do we really want, anyway? We can acquire the riches of the physical, material world only to discover that we are empty that they havent fulfi lled our needs at all. Only after owning assets which we gladly discard for peace of mind can a person understand that emptiness (often called the existential vacuum.) Life can have no meaning without the spiritual dimensions which are necessary for us to feel like our real selves. What makes your heart beat? What force breathes your body for you? All the many systems of our bodies which continue to function without our help ask the question of the mystery which sustains a human life. How do we explain our beingness without a connection to the Divine? The faith we need to develop is in answer to these puzzling questions. Creative and loving, making our future days by our attitudes today, we need to be grateful for the sustenance of our heavenly parents who love us, whether we understand the whole picture or not. It is all a divine comedy drama farce or tragedy. What do we want our lives to be? God is always present when were aware. The sense of connection within our own hearts and souls allows us companionship and security above and beyond all else. That will never be taken from us, since it is inviolate and ours to be treasured by ourselves forever.