My darling sweet

sister posted a weblong thing the other day - entitled "16 things".
I had to seriously give this a thought, and I decided to handle it this way.

16 words.

1) Love. Nothing without love. It is worth living for, worth dying for. It is all in all that is asked of us and if we are not consumed by it above all other things, than we are not people, but merely animals who obay impulse and drives.

2) Worship. The most beautiful expression of love to the One who deserves more than anything else. Worship can be impressed, like a signature or a mold on anything we do. It is the imprint, the seal, the press in any action, deed, or lifestyle.

3) Fellowship. The communion of two or more people in any way that will eventually bring about the properties of active worship. If your experiances with other people do not bring you to a point where you can worship, wether in sorrow or in joy or even in just simple quiet majesty, than check first your own heart and its motivations, than theirs.

4) Dicipline. This is not a bad word, and it does not mean punishment. It simply means that you have givin yourself over to be constant and dedicated in the way you live. It is one of the three things that God asks of us. To be diciplined enough to simply do the work He sets in front of us each day, and do it. Worshipfully and with joy. This is the hardest, and the most meaningful, and it will bring peace to your life.

5) Peace. In as much as it is dependent on you - live at peace with all men. It is not your job to judge them, only to live side by side with them and show them the Way that things *might* be. It is wrapped in love and infused by worship. It means that you allow thier actions and thier lifestyles to be simply between them and God, and keep your own nose clean of it.

6)Time. It is all we have to give. It is the most important gift. The gift of our time to a friend, to a child, to a task. It is not redeemable, it is precious, and it is our *only* unlimited resource.

7) Immortality. Each one of us has it in our hearts because it is what we are. Each and every one of us will indeed live forever. I adore yoda - He had it so right... "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter" The simplicity of it, the ease in which we long for it and and grasp at it.

8) Nobility. The fact that we *are* more than mere animals. We have an ability to rise above everything around us and be *more*. We can be honorable, we can be just. We can protect and nurture and stand when everything around us is falling to peices.

9) Home. This earth is so very temporary. This is just a prequal, a camping trip. This earht is not our home. And just as people on a camping trip are, we will find that we dont have everything that we need here and now, and indeed, its *impossible* to have it. To seek it is to seek insanity. We make do, and look forward to when we *are* home.

10) Ambassadors. Not only are we camping in a strange and forign land where we dont speak the language, dont agree with the values or mores, but we are ambassadors of our country to it. We are more than examples. We are the nobility sent forth into the land to gather people to our own cause and our own country. To attemtp to "fit in" here is also insanity - and whats more - its traitorious.

11) Judiasm. I can not phrase this more simply. Christ was a jew. We are told to be like Christ. what more do you want?

12) Christ. you knew I had to get there eventually - now didnt you?

13) Inspiration. Use everything you can in this world to tie it back. Think of the Silver Chair. The lamp - bigger and warmer is the sun. The cat, bigger and more terrifying is the Lion. and so is Batman a picture of nobility and justice. And so is the worship of teams and power plays and example of idolatry.

14) Wisdom. Seek it, use it. It is the ability to understand, not just with your head, but your heart and to impliment it later. It will save your life and the lives of those around you.

15) Addiction. We cannot get through life without at least one - just choose it carefully.

16) BUNNYRABBIT! Because one cannot be serious all the time.