A simple test to employ

If you care to know if you are motivated by your Conscience instead of your ego, there is a simple test to employ. If you are driving home and you see a small animal like a squirrel, possum or raccoon dead in the road, do you feel a twinge of remorse, or do you feel nothing? If you feel nothing then you are a little short on compassion meaning you are not connected to the God within. It's only that sense of compassion that makes you a human being. Otherwise you are just an animal with a large brain.

The fact that you can choose to preserve, create, or destroy life proves you are a representative of the God force. You inherited that power from HIM. Every living creature did. Not one of them was chosen to receive it. Nor does one deserve to have it more than any other. The decision is yours whether or not to use that power prudently.

Sober judgment and understanding will serve one better than blind allegiance to ideology or prophecy; for one will not interpret either accurately without them. There are no answers in either if one cannot separate fact from fiction. Therefore an investment in analytical thinking is a must if one is to make heads or tails out of ideology or prophecy.

Preparing for Change

No matter what change means to any single individual, finding a reason to believe is essential to knowing how to respond to change. Change is the constant upon which Universal Law operates. How one prepares for it depends upon what one perceives is required. This is different for each one of us. Doing nothing is not an option. So my advice is open your mind to ALL that is around you at the present time, and come to your own conclusion of what the requirements are.

Unconditional Love

Loving the smallest and least significant as if they are the largest and most significant is the mandate. If you can't find it in your heart to do this, there's no room for anything else.

Control and responsibilty

There is a vein of paradox that runs through our lives -- free will versus predetermination. With control comes responsibility. The rule is: if one wants control, one has to take responsibility, otherwise things go horribly wrong. If one cannot step up to it of their own volition, they need inspiration. That is why Avatars appear from time to time to point the way. But they can only offer a helping hand, and provide an example. Free will demands 'no one can do for you what you must do for yourself'.

Revelation while watching the LOST Finale

Dying is not the worst thing that can happen to you. Being unloved is. And that comes from not having love in your heart. If you don't, you can't share it with anyone. That makes the only real tragedy in life to inability to participate in that give and take. To give love is the greatest gift of life.