And all of those ways are valid, have their place, and are of immense value to us. It comes in the incredibly enriching experience of friendship, in the profound commitments of marriage and family, in loving and intimate relationships with others wherein we share the deepest parts of our inner selves and receive those precious gifts in return. We have all tasted and seen. We have come to knowledge, and we have discovered truth, in the rich experiences of living. Our hearts, mine along with yours, are too much held down by fear.
Fear is a controlling and dominating emotion.
But for those who can accept God's Presence a great and wondrous day dawns when they taste and see the goodness of the Lord. Then something that they believed merely with their minds becomes something that is real and in their experience, something that lasts forever and that nobody can ever take away from them. I am the bread come down from heaven. I am the bread of life. If anyone eats this bread, he shall live forever, I living in him, he living in me in a life that is eternal.