Most Important

** I was thinking today. Like many, I experience challenges and difficulties. Like many we live one day at a time. This was a particularly difficult day. However, when I got home, I heard someone talking about family and work, and I realized something.

**The most important. To love God.

**There will be no intellectual talk here. It suddenly dawned on me how simple what I’m sharing here.

**To anyone open to honesty, we know we didn’t create ourselves. At the same time, we know we were each put on this Earth with love. Yes, each one of us is loved. I can see no other purpose to this life. Each one of us were made in love, and that is the purpose of life.

**I can obtain a great education, have a large family, have many friends, have millions, even billions of dollars, all the material things one could garner in this life, and yet be miserable. Having it all, but having nothing. In the middle of the night, taking a short walk outside the home, with all that one has, and realize it’s all nothing. Without love, it is all nothing.

**That’s is what we are here. To work hard, but ponder the meaning of life. To ponder that each one of us, before we were ever conceived, had no existence. We were made, given life. And as we grow, we have opportunities to ponder. To wonder. To ask questions with an open and honest heart.

**I remember one of my uncles sharing something I’ll never forget. His daughter, as she was getting older, wanted to have more free time. Like many teenagers, she wanted the freedom to stay out late with her friends. I believe she felt denied freedom. *Well, my uncle didn’t at first know what to say. Then, he said something I’ll never forget. He said to her if I don’t hold to his rules, it means he doesn’t love her. Then he asked in a more quiet tone: Do you want me to not love you anymore? He was concerned what she might say. But she agreed with him. And you know what? She believes in God.

**You see, parents are the representatives of God. That is, they are “loaned” their children to properly raise them, the best they can, praying when they fall short.

**I know this is true. How do I know? Well, when I was young, I could imagine no life apart from my parents. However, for some reason, perhaps someone said something which I don’t remember, I thought my parents might split up. Perhaps I saw a show about divorce, but I don’t really remember. Anyway, my mother heard me crying. When she talked to me, she said they would always be together.

**You see, I had never been told about their marriage, that they were my parents, or otherwise. I just grew up with them there. Family is in our Dna. God is in our Dna. I can also remember a time when I heard kids outside talking about God, and this was before we’d ever been to church. Immediately, I knew what they were talking about.

**Without knowing, I knew. Without any words, my world was my parents, and my siblings. And I knew we were to love each other.

**That is everything.

**One more thing, and this might sound a bit intellectual. This isn’t as important, but it might help some. Life is not this material world we see: the mountains, stores, trees, and all the rest. All of this was created.

**Life is God and all of us He created. He put us into these bodies so we could move about in this material world. It’s quite amazing. And the scientists cannot figure out life. Not even make one leaf.

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