WHERE IS SPIRIT?

 As you recall, in our last story, Soul and Thinker deceived their sister, Spirit, to play hide and seek so she would go with them to the city, in the valley, to have fun. But, it was a place forbidden by their father and Spirit spoke adamantly against it. When they got close to the steep hill, Thinker pushed Spirit down the hill and they all slid down behind her. It was a very rocky and arduous hill. Unfortunately, when they got to the bottom of the hill, Spirit suffered a deep gash to her forehead, which killed her. The four of them had never experienced death before and neither one of them understood what happened to her. Emotion was frantic and begin to cry uncontrollably with tears drenching down her face and clothes. She shouted, “What happened to her?” “What is that red stuff coming from her head?” Then, she was overcome with “sadness and grief.” Thinker became fearful and confused. She said, “My thoughts are running around in my head and nothing inside me makes sense anymore!” “I am having pain in my head!” As Soul listened to her sister and brother, she became just like them, sad, grieving, fearful, confused, and for the first time, she felt ‘lost and alone.’ But still in Soul’s mind, she believed that her sister was only asleep and would wake up any moment; she never did. Will shook her, slapped her face to wake her up. Emotion held her, and consoled her, but nothing worked. Soul cried out, “Father, Father help us!” She called out for her elder brother but they could not hear anyone over the sound of the noise coming from the new city they had become a part of. Thinker came up with an idea, “Let’s carry Spirit back home to father, he will wake her up from her sleep?” Soul, Emotion, and Will agreed. When they all picked her up to carry her up the hill, neither one of them could climb the steep hill. For hours, the three of them tried desperately to take their sister back home, to no avail. Will said, “We can’t give up, we must get her back home!” Will tried, Thinker thought of ways to resolve their dilemma. Emotion was overwhelmed by Thinker’s confusion, and Soul did not know what to do. Without Spirit, their lives were in turmoil because Father appointed Spirit as leader and guide for her sisters and brother. Now that Spirit was dead, what were the four of them going to do?

THE GIFT of SPIRIT: In Part 2 of the Sacred Journey, Spirit dies because of being deceived by Soul and Thinker. How do we connect or communicate with our Heavenly Father or our Lord Jesus Christ when our spirit is dead? Because our Father is Spirit and we are spirit created in his image, the only way to connect with Him is “in spirit and in truth.” We may attempt to connect with Him through our thoughts, emotions, feelings, will, and other spiritual or religious pursuits, but it is to no avail. What do we do?

Prayer: Father we attempt to serve you and connect with you through our many religious efforts and activities, but nothing can please you except it is done from our spirits. Our spirit is ‘dead’ without you. Breathe your life into our spirit Father, so that we may hear your voice again and rest in your grace and love.

See Song on Heaven Serenades Page: Have You Met Grace?