TO MY READERS I OFFER THIS SHORTBREAD TODAY AND TRUST
THAT IT WILL FEED SOME LONELY SOUL.

BIBLE READING WILL BE TAKEN FROM 1ST JOHN.1:9-11.
THE NEW ENGLISH VERSION-----------------

A MAN MAY SAY, 'IAM IN THE LIGHT'; BUT IF HE HATES HIS
BROTHER HE IS STILL IN THE DARK. ONLY THE MAN WHO
LOVES HIS BROTHER DWELLS IN THE LIGHT: THERE IS
NOTHING TO MAKE HIM STUMBLE. BUT ONE WHO HATES HIS
BROTHER IS IN DARKNESS; HE WALKS IN THE DARK AND HAS
NO IDEA WHERE HE IS GOING, BECAUSE THE DARKNESS HAS
MADE HIM BLIND.

WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF THE
LORD IT SOUNDS SO MYSTERIOUS. BUT, WHAT THIS REALLY
MEANS IS PRACTICING THE PRESENCE OF LOVE.
WHO CAN MEASURE UP TO SUCH A SELFLESS ACT.?
GOD IS LOVE ! AND WHEN WE PRACTICE THE PRESENCE OF
LOVE WE ARE PRACTICING THE PRESENCE OF GOD.
TOO OFTEN WE FIND OUR LOVE SUPPLY AT A LOW EBB.
FOR SOME OF US LOVE IS SOMETHING ELUSIVE AND NOT
READILY AT HAND, AND WE FIND OURSELVES RE-ACTING
INSTEAD OF LOVING.
NO WONDER THEN THE WORLD PRESSES IN ON ITSELF UNDER
THE WEIGHT OF IT'S OWN UNLOVING.
HATRED STEPPED INTO THE BODIES OF FOUR PLANES ON 9/11
AND SWEPT AWAY IN FOUR FURIOUS STROKES THE HELPLESS
AND THE UNSUSPECTING...
THE MYSTERY OF EVIL UNLEASHED IT'S FIERY FANGS AND
SWALLOWED THE INNOCENT.
GOODNESS AND EVIL ALIKE ARE MYSTERIES...BUT GOODNESS
HAS ANSWERS WHICH THE TENDER HEARTS OF LOVE BEAR WITH
TEARS. IT HAS ALL BEEN LAID OUT IN THE GREAT BOOK OF
REVEALING, THE BIBLE. FOR THOSE WHO CAN BEAR IT, IT
PLAINLY SHOWS THE INNOCENT SUFFERING FOR THE GUILTY.
THIS IS LOVE AT IT'S GREATEST !!
GUILT IS A UNIVERSAL DISEASE WE ALL CARRY ABOUT TO
SOME DEGREE. SO EASILY SPREAD BUT CAN ONLY BE CURED BY
LOVE. LOVE CARRIES THE SOUL ABOVE GUILT, OUR OWN AS WELL
AS THE INHERITED GUILT OF THE HUMAN RACE.
LOVE, THIS THING OF WINGS, SO DELICATE AND SO HARD TO
HOLD, LODGES FOR SHORT PERIODS OF TIME IN THE SEEKING
HEART, BUT AT THE LEAST SIGN OF PROVOCATION CAN
DISAPPEAR LIKE SMOKE IN THE WIND.
UGLY THINGS LIKE, HATRED, GREED, ENVY AND PREJUDICE FIGHT
TO KEEP US OUT OF THE PRACTICE OF LOVE.
OPPORTUNITIES COME EVERY DAY FOR US TO GET PAST THE
SELF BUT, EACH OPPORTUNITY FAILED IS ONE LESS CHANCE WE
HAVE TO LEARN THE LESSON SPIRIT HAS SO GRACIOUSLY
SENT.
CAN MAN YET BE BROUGHT TO DESIRE LOVE ABOVE ALL ELSE?
IS THERE HOPE YET THAT OUR WORLD CAN SURVIVE UNTIL
HUMANITY BROUGHT TO IT'S KNEES, FINALLY EMBRACES THE
TRUTH OF LOVE.?
WE NEED ASK NO LONGER WHAT SIN IS...SIN IS THE ABSENCE
OF LOVE, JUST AS DARKNESS IS THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT.!
JUST AS ROCKS ARE WORN DOWN BY THE SOFT TEARING TEETH
OF THE OCEAN WAVES, SO MAN IS WORN DOWN BY HIS UNLOVE.
THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY DOES ALREADY WORK, THIS IS
PROFOUNDLY TRUE, AND TIME SHAKES IN THIS SENTENCING.
FOR WE ARE CREATURES CREATED IN THE FLOW OF TIME, AND
CAUGHT IN IT'S WEB.
NOW THAT WE HAVE SEEN THE MASK OF MYSTERY REMOVED FROM
THE FACE OF LOVE, LET US LOOK INTO THE FACE OF LOVE AND
TAKE OUR MEASURE.
ON THE CROSS JESUS SAID OF HIS TORMENTERS,' FATHER
FORGIVE THEM'...
WE HAVE ALSO SEEN THE MASK REMOVED FROM THE FACE OF
EVIL, AND SEEN IT TO BE THE FACE OF HATRED, A FACE OF
NON-LOVE.
HOW DESPERATELY OUR WORLD NEEDS LOVE TODAY...WITH SO
MUCH UNREST, SO MUCH INSTABILITY AND THREATENING SIGNS
OF IMPENDING DISASTER WE NEED NOW MORE THAN EVER
LOVE'S STEADYING STRENGTH.
LET US BIND TOGETHER TO PRACTICE LOVE, FORGIVENESS AND
ACCEPTANCE, LEST WE FIND OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE.
I EMBRACE YOU MY DEAR FRIENDS TODAY WITH THE LOVE OF
CHRIST, BY WHOSE LOVE WE ARE SAVED....SIS. FLO