Reality and Perception

The Fullness Of Reality Is Known
Not Only By What Is Obvious To Us
But Also Through The Perception Of What Is Missing -

That Is Always There.

This Is Why Many Of Us Are Haunted
With The Troubling Sense
That At Best
Our Existence Is Only Half Of What It Should Be.

Merely Good Intentions

"Good Intentions"

Without Resolve

Is At Worst A Lie

At Best Self-Deception

Wrapped In Rationalization -

Away From A Heart

That's Was Convicted

The Witness of "Imago Dei"

We Can Know If A Local Church

FAILS

In Its Divinely Given God-Given Purpose,

When Any ONE PERSON Within It,

Is A More Authentic Representation

Of Jesus Christ,

Than The SUM TOTAL Of The Individuals

Within The CONGREGATION Itself.

It Must Be The Comprehensive Witness

Of The "Imago Dei"

"If the highest good,

is only the provision of everyone's

basic physical needs;

then the individual's pursuit

of aesthetic beauty

becomes one of the greatest evils."

Exactly at what point do our "needs" end and the "superfluous" begin? There is both an "absolute" and "relative" dynamic to both - particularly as they relate to the responsibility to the individual; as well as responsible economics. If I live strictly according to my basic needs, and give what I would have spent to the "needy;" then those who were employed because of the "superfluous" now become the "needy".