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Hello Fellow Sojourner and Reader

It has been seven articles since my introduction.

I started with ‘A Morbid Love Letter’ which is a bitter lament yet hope-filled death-bed wish of a mother to her son inviting him back onto the path of Life. Then I pulled two examples of two great men on opposite sides of belief in ‘Meaningless? Meaningful?’ and asked the question, who gained with this Life? I then cited ‘Stanislav Petrov’ a relatively unknown man, who in a very unappreciated act of heroism, ‘saved the world’. And I am saying in that post that we are not here to get what we think we deserve; we are here to get eternity, to live this Life in such a way that we grab the right to the Tree of Life. I am saying this world is very unpredictable and very unsatisfying, it is not worth living for its praise and adoration.

‘Cut The Tree Down’ builds on this theme of living this Life for the next one through a short metaphorical story that expounds on a parable in the Holy Bible's Book of Luke. Man is supposed to be fruitful spiritually. If he is not and Death cuts him down, he is just useless matter that occupied this Earth for some time and is gone forever. And in ‘Who Remembers Bisa?’ am asking the question: to whom do you, ultimately, matter? Your mother, your father, your wife or husband, your children are all subject to the same law of Death like you and they cannot help you. When you are all gone into history, who will remember you and care that you once existed?

‘Foolishness’ is pretty obvious, I think. I expound on several biblical verses that compare God and Man. When Man thinks he is far above God that God cannot exist, ‘Foolishness’ is simply saying that what seems to be is not what really is. What really is, is God and God is God. Man is His dust and breath. Therefore, Man should bow down always before God.

‘Unequal Lions But Equal Worms’ is an exploration of how this World can never give any of us true equality. We will always gripe about the inequality that exists in this World. Only Death equates us all. But it is also a clarion cry of hope extolling the Death of the believer which contains the ingredient of an imminent resurrection into Eternal Life as opposed to the Death of the unbeliever which will result in Eternal Death.

I am treading the thin line that cuts through belief and opinion using literature-like writing. No doubt this will not go down well with some while others will hear something that strikes a chord within them. Whatever the case, I hope it is clear what I am insinuating and exhorting.

You see, in this world, we etch for ourselves very personal priorities, which we are continually carving from a complex mixture of our circumstances, thoughts and experiences. Needless to say then, we cannot all have the same ideas, ideals, or beliefs.

Nevertheless, it is my unassuming opinion that of all the things this world offers, the one constant that transcends time, space, age, gender, wealth, status, colour, race, tribe, culture, custom, nationality, taste, faith, environment and education is Life. We all want Life...and we want it in abundance!

My philosophy is simple. It is from this one premise, Life, that I start my reasoning. Man’s yearning and quest to live (and keep living forever) on one hand and man’s horror and recoil from dying on the other hand. These are two sides of a single constant force woven tight into the fabric of our souls. No one teaches it, no one learns it, no one can brush it aside. The desire to live is instinctive, pulling us always to seek Life and the recoil from Death is automatic, pushing us always to avoid it.

But herein lies the paradoxical dilemma. We yearn for Life and our yearning is exponentially upwards to more Life. Yet our ability to live is exponentially downwards to Death. We were all born and we found things as they are. We found that this world has this awful scary exit that we all abhor; none of us wants to pass through it but we are powerless to avoid it. We find that Death is written so deeply into our souls we are incapable of removing it. We are incapable of staying alive.

And, in one way or another, we are all trying to fathom why this is so.

On one hand, this world offers a lot of explanations, ways, paths, wisdoms and answers for the way things are. But on the other hand, this world offers a lot of confusion, chaos, destruction, grief, anguish and pain and it poses a lot more questions.

Each day our feet trace out our small stories in the fabric of humanity to this moment, with a whole history of people who have lived in this world but now are gone from it. We cannot change what is; it is and that’s it. We can play around it. We can ignore it. We can believe it. Or not. We can rail and rage against it. We can be amazed by it. We can be puzzled by it. We can give reverence to it. We can love it. It makes no difference.

It is there.

What is the meaning of Life on this Earth? What is Death? Why Death? How do we get Eternal Life? Is what we think created this world, capable of generating and sustaining Eternal Life?

These are the deep questions of Life that we must all find answers to. And, as it happens, we all have different opinions about them. But in there, in all the different opinions and views and beliefs and ‘truths’, there can only be one true path to one Truth.

Ultimately, in short, what I am presenting is Jesus Christ. He is Truth.

Stay with me and listen.