Edna Lister’s Sermons, 1941

The Paradise of the Soul
Edna Lister outline, June 8, 1941, Great Falls, MT; 1 Peter 1:3-11

  “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the Power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen, you love. Though now you do not see him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls. Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when he testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that would follow.”–1 Peter 1:3-11.

  Living through the trials of earth’s darkness is but part of the effort to reach your soul’s haven. The trials of your faith are more precious than pure gold. You are kept safe by the Power of God working through your faith.

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Eternal Life in The Word
Edna Lister transcript, June 29, 1941, Buffalo, NY, Ruth Bender, scribe, 1 John 5:7-15

  “There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.”–1 John 5:7-15.
  The Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost cannot be destroyed, although all record of them on earth could be. For the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost are the eternal record of heaven.
  Your thoughts and emotions form pictures in imagination, and when you speak, they color your use of the Holy Breath in speaking the Word. Like a flock of birds fluttering about you, your thoughts and words can be raucous black crows or beautiful white doves. Your words, thoughts, and emotions are like little distractions in your aura. While they are not entities, they can plague you like a murder of crows if you are not high in consciousness. When the Light comes through, it sends them flying and you can feel pure again. Yet when you close the gate to Light in your mind, the black flock returns to roost.
  The higher degrees of breath—the fifth, sixth, and seventh degrees—unlock the gate to joy. The River of Life is like an escalator, becoming from above to entice and persuade you to become an ensample of Light to others. You cannot push or force anyone to enter into the kingdom. All you can do is to be an ensample of the Light above, and the joy of that Light is the irresistible attractive power.
  God is the Father is all that is. He is the Light of the River of Life, the substance of which all things are made. The Word is that vibration of energy as the Light of the Power, Mind and Substance God sends forth by His will as the River of Life. The Word rides upon the river’s current and calls all life to itself.
  God’s Light is the Holy Breath that contains all power and substance. These three—Light as the Father, the Word, and the Holy Breath—bear rewards from above that are beyond the grasp of the finite mind. It is ours to surrender to in the joy of soul. Spirit is the individualized living soul in form on earth. The spirit in you is what psychology calls the sleeping soul.

  Spirit, water, and blood bear witness on earth: Water, which symbolizes the lymph system, and blood, bear the virtues of soul. Pure undefiled spirit receives the witness of God.
  You have the power of free will, which is more appropriately named the freedom to choose. When you dissipate the Light-substance of the Holy Breath, it returns to the River of Life to be cleansed. The cleaning bill is presented to you later.
  Water represents the emotions, and unquenchable love is designed to be the chief emotion in you. Water symbolizes you as emotion, and as your giving. So Spirit represents faith, water symbolizes love, and they bear witness for you on earth. The soul who lives by unquenchable love and unconquerable faith witnesses for God on earth.
  Love is a magnetically vitalizing current. You can stand in faith and release the power of love for a soul who is enveloped in the black clouds of reciprocal action and reaction. In the world, you are either strong or weak, either living as complete truth or trying to sometimes. Why don't you know that God talks to you when you ask Him for something?
  If you believe in man-made miracles like motion pictures, why don't you believe in God’s miracles? All you need to do is to let faith flow through you and let unquenchable love overcome anything that threatens you.
  Are you surrendering to God? Are you letting unconquerable faith use you? No one can get inside your mind or heart. A musician plays his bass viol by drawing the bow across the strings. Are you playing life or letting life play you?
  No one can play upon you unless you allow him to do so. If you open yourself to manipulation, you are in darkness, as is the person manipulating you. Let God play you as His instrument. Let Him draw His bow over your three strings of unconquerable faith, unquenchable love, and invincible joy.

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The Chalice
Edna Lister outline, July 6, 1941, Buffalo, NY; James 1:5-9, 1:22-26

  “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally, and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting. For he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive any thing from the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in his exaltation.”–James 1:5-9.
  “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is useless.”–James 1:22-26.
  Stability has nothing to do with being double-minded, which is unstable. An unstable man lifts his cup to be refilled with the world’s brew and dregs.
  A hearer of the Word looks into the mirror of the soul, but being double-minded, he sees the truth turned upside down. For him, only confusion results. A doer of the Word seeks the gates of life. He lifts his chalice to be filled with Light, the “elixir of life.” You must be a doer of the Word for Light to fill you with joy and soul exaltation.
  Once God has brought you into being, there is no turning back from being and doing. Trying is believing you can, but doing is knowing. Trying wants to believe, looks into the mirror of the soul, but sees a double image of illusion. Doing is knowing. Being and doing fill your chalice with Light.

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The Chalice
Edna Lister transcript, July 6, 1941, Buffalo, NY; Ruth Bender, scribe, James 1:5-9, 1:22-26

  “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally, and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting. For he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive any thing from the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in his exaltation.”–James 1:5-9.
  “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is useless.”–James 1:22-26.
  Ascension from the earthy creature consciousness to become the conscious son or daughter of God is a long, hard climb that begins with trying until you start believing you can do it. From doing, you progress to knowing that you can become what you are striving for, until your very being lies in doing the greater works God meant for you to do. Finally, you live, move and have your being in the Father.
  “God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.”–Acts 14:24-28.
  While you are still trying and believing, you are still wavering. Your last teacher is the best one you ever had. The last beliefs you held were the best of all. Mentally, the newest “light” you’ve seen is the brightest. Spiritually, they are all giving you more than you had before. This is a necessary phase for everyone in the process of enfolding the soul.
  If you turn a two-sided mirror upward it will reflect the Light of God. You cannot look into another’s mirror and see him. You only see yourself and the world reflected, not the other fellow. Some people have no mirror of their own, but see only their own reflection in the other person’s mirror. Trying and believing consists of this.
  When you focus your mirror to truly see yourself, you can see all your past efforts at protecting your self. When you stop bumbling, you can do and know that you are capable of doing more, and doing it more perfectly.
  Lift everything that you consider your “past,” here and now, as you ascend. Put everyone and everything you have disliked onto a cloud continent of Light. Lift your detriments and everyone you’ve ever called an enemy. However you’ve labeled him, you’ve pasted your name on him and stuck him in darkness, on a line that extends back to you. So you remain connected, no matter where you go. You must help him to pay any debt you feel he owes, because you’ve blamed him.
  Consider this: Even Hitler is living on the soul substance of those people who hate and condemn him and what he has done. They are feeding him. The time will come when they find that they must pay to have their soul substance returned to them. The doer, the one who does, knows that there is only one place to go. He knows that that which is not true shall fall of its own weight.

  When you begin becoming what you believe and know to be true, you become a creator, the servant of the Power of God. You pack your kit, put the pack on your back and start ascending toward the final goal. This is how you bridge the abyss between doing and becoming to being.
  Intuition and illumination are above believing and knowing. Being is a finale. Finally, you lose all self to stand possessed only of Light, with no consciousness of doing. The surrender is so complete that you are possessed and absorbed by God. The faith and Wisdom of God uses you to do the right thing at the right time in the right place.
  Then you have become the mirror in which no one can see his reflection, only Light. You cannot avoid doing as God when you are being the Light. The Light of God will surround and fill you, and others will see it in your eyes. What do you wish to make of this? You will do what the Father does. He makes all things of Light.
  “Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”–James 1:4-5. If you see darkness and want to make more darkness of it, you slip back to the lowest classes. God planted His seed of Light within you, and it grows and works until it becomes what it really is.
  Raise your chalice of Light to be filled from above. “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”–James 1:17. You can turn your mirror upward and look into it. Hold your mirror on high until you need it no longer. Face the Light under all conditions until you become invincible.

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Jesus, the Lawyer
Edna Lister outline, July 20, 1941, Buffalo, NY; Matthew 22:34-46

  “But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, What think ye of Christ? Whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.”–Matthew 22:34-46.
  Love is the greatest commandment, to “love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” This is the heart and soul of the Via Christa, which is the Way of Universal Brotherhood.
  You shall love your neighbor exactly as you love your self because that is the only way you can do so. You must love enough, so much so that you stand at last on the Mount of Transfiguration, as Jesus did, “glistering and white.”

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Jewels of the Soul
Edna Lister outline, July 27, 1941, Buffalo, NY; John 15

  “I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin. He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: and ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.”–John 15.
  For trees to bear a good crop of fruit, the orchard keeper must carefully prune them to remove any dead branches or suckers. You must prune your self. Once someone points your sin out to you, you have no cover for that sin. You must repent, call it wrong, take responsibility and make amends or you cannot face yourself.

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Charity
Edna Lister transcript, August 24, 1941, Buffalo, NY; Ruth Bender, scribe, 1 Corinthians 13

  “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”–1 Corinthians 13.
  “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.”–1 Corinthians 13:1.
  Free speech is a right and a privilege that is widely misused and abused because people do not want to apply the law of charity in speech that is stated in 1 Corinthians 13. Take, for example, criticism of government, of legislators or those in high office. The average man on the street is relatively uninformed regarding the workings of government, but voices his strong opinions about it, usually without basis in fact.
  Charity is “Christian love as an expression of God’s divine love for man, an act of loving all men as brothers because they are sons of God.” Charity is “an act or feeling of affection or benevolence; good will to the poor and the suffering; lenience in judging men and their actions.” Why is charity greater than faith or hope? Faith and hope are soul faculties that you aim upward to God. You have faith in Him and in His care for you. You hope to receive the best from Him. Charity is different than faith or hope—it is what God dispenses to you and to your fellow man. You cannot give another your faith or your hope, but you can give him the same charity God extends to you.
  If you wish to think well of your neighbor, why do you insist in seeing his faults and negative traits? What you give to others is what you can expect to receive from them in return. If your neighbor is 90 percent good and only 10 percent not so good, you can choose to forget about his flaws. Just do not see them; quit noticing what’s unpleasant.
  Charity is also a kindly feeling toward others. If you were raised with charity, you will find it easier to give than if you were raised in a house of constant judgments and criticism. And if you were brought up with such harshness, it’s time to grow up into more Godlike relationships. Quit being suspicious. Banish the petty jealousies and wondering what others think. Quit questioning the love that others wish to share with you, the charity they wish to give. Stop being a baby, or an injured child with hurt feelings. It’s so easy to give in to the lesser expressions in life.
  Stop following the crowd in confusion. It takes forever to reach the goal and everything is soiled and trampled when you arrive. Don't be the “average” or the “ordinary” soul.

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The Yoke of Love
Edna Lister outline, December 7, 1941, Buffalo, NY; 2 Corinthians 6:14-16, Matthew 11:29-30. Note: The Japanese attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941.

  “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”–2 Corinthians 6:14-16.
  “Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”–Matthew 11:29-30.
  A yoke is a crossbar with two U-shaped pieces that encircle the necks of a pair of oxen or other draft animals working together, a bond or tie, something that connects or joins together. You must yoke your desire to your choice, under the bond of honor.

  Desire begins with aspiration, moves to inspiration, and leads to illumination. Desire operates under the Christed principles of idea, number, tone, and form. They belong to you, and when yoked together with your desire, they create concord.
  You have freedom to choose the yoke you wear, and to make yourself happy or unhappy according to your desire. Choice and desire must have concord to tie them together, to keep harmony and unity flowing through, with no separation from God.
  Honor brings you to concord, which is first an agreement, then a contract with God. A contract is a covenant. The yoke symbolizes your covenant with God, a covenant of love, signed in honor.
  Love considers only love, contemplates only love. Love expresses only love. Love is perfect, and considers only love as itself, as being perfect. Love creates only love, in its own image and likeness. Love is the greatest investment in a life annuity.
  Light is the Face of God, shining down upon you. How can you walk with God, how can God walk in you, if you are yoked with any darkness? How can He dwell in you, if you dwell in darkness? “If the Light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!”
  Every Idea can become a material seed, symbolized by the number 6, six. God has sowed a seed of Light within the heart of every living soul. His seed may fall on fallow ground, but it cannot die. Self’s ideas and desires die to feed the seed until it becomes the number of perfected humankind (symbolized by the number 9, nine).

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The Yoke of Love
Edna Lister transcript, December 7, 1941, Buffalo, NY; Ruth Bender, scribe, 2 Corinthians 6:14-16, Matthew 11:29-30

  “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”–2 Corinthians 6:14-16.
  “Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”–Matthew 11:29-30.
  You pray yourself into the yoke of love. Thus, the term “yoke” can apply to an object or to a personal choice of action. You can yoke yourself to something, meaning you bind yourself to it, at least temporarily. To yoke yourself to God consciously involves desire, choice and honor. Your desire involves aspiration, imagination and illumination. Without honor, your choice can lead to dissolution and finally, annihilation.
  Aspiration can be as unconscious as the breath you draw. It can flame or retrogress into absorption of your soul. Imagination can quicken desire until it leads to soul illumination. Spiritual illumination comes when the soul is set on fire. A flaming desire will not let you sit down. Self-satisfaction creates dry rot of the soul. Disease sets in when the soul is not aroused to aspiration and inspiration. No one feels the need to make a choice unless he is fired by aspiration, inspiration and some degree of soul illumination. Sometimes your choice may tear your heart out, and you must watch others walk on it.
  Success comes from service and the sacrifice of self. Being yoked in love can give you the courage to push on and stand by until you reach success. Yet some people stand by for the wrong reason or in misunderstanding. They are yoked unequally. To find yourself yoked unequally requires that you make a choice. The law is “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.”–2 Corinthians 6:14.
  The law also says that you cannot return to heaven by walking over the broken backs or hearts of others. Emancipation comes only through mastery of the situation in which you find yourself. Your choice must therefore come from within, from the soul. You cannot look back once you have made your choice in the silence of the chapel of love. The soul who is more illumined must lift the yoke until it ascends. The soul who desires freedom is responsible for lifting the yoke while maintaining silence.
  Honor is placing God above all things. When you love God above all else, you step up and into the place called concord, which also means harmony.
  The secret of emancipation from a situation in which you are unequally yoked is to add more Light. Darkness is always too impatient to wait for law to act. It tears asunder that which is good, and cannot abide the Light. If you find yourself in darkness, you have not carried Light supremely in your life, because God is Light. The only hope darkness has for its continued existence is to hide from Light. When darkness interferes with your life, you can always say, “I am on my way up and out of this.”
  Life squeezes, pummels and punches you until you let the Power of God use you more and more swiftly until it uses you instantly. If you still close down or withdraw, you still have not reached the third step, honor.
  Concord is an agreement you reached when you made your choice. You know concord when you are in agreement with the Light. The first step is steadfastly facing the Light. Second, when you face the Light, you instantly come to the point of vowing to the Father not to pull against the yoke again.
  “Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”–Matthew 11:29-30.

  You take the descending Light of love upon yourself. Love is the only miracle that exists. Enough love overcomes anything. Love is perfect and can see and know only itself. Yet love does not consort with darkness, nor does it condemn darkness. Love is the only creator, and can create only more love. If it cannot follow Light, it’s frantic to escape. True love cannot even see evil. Love minds its own business and never snoops. Love would never desecrate the inviolable precincts of another’s soul by doubtful questioning or accusations. A yoke of suspicion and bondage is born of darkness, not of love. God doesn’t interfere with what you choose, but holds no account against the soul who escapes the yoke of another’s pressure.
  The last step is your covenant with God, which is love. God planted His seed of Light in you before you descended to earth. God is the Light, and He cannot die. Your seed of Light cannot die. Your Light cannot be put out, but you can let it crystallize if you fail to use it, or to make it grow. All it takes is imagination to start this seed growing upward into greater Light.
  Take the first step as soon as you make your choice. Walk out into the Light. Continue walking, even if you see no path. Follow the Light! Stay in the Light, for it is your home and will take you all the way back to God!

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