The 2 KEYS to Life!: One key involves my Spirit; I am not the ultimate knowledge or power. So, Who is my spirit connected to? The second key involves my Soul. I am responsible to mature my soul. Love is the secret ingredient for both keys. Love is the crossover connection that flows to and from my spirit and to and from my soul. Love is both right brain and left brain. That is why Jesus said “everything is summed up in these two truths; Love God (spirit; relational right brain) and Love your neighbor as you care for yourself; (soul; practical left brain). “How can you say you love God when you don’t love your neighbor?” And is my neighbor only those who bring me joy? I may think so if I am a relational child. But, that would be a false reality for a relational adult or parent. T
Hold what we hear from God loosely. Meaning, God is fluid and we may not see all of what He is doing. We will always see it through our relational level of maturity. So I Let Him be God in the situation and I don’t try to hijack the situation or short-circuit what He is doing. LM
Without God in our lives, we are all dead people walking. When we are born again through the work of Jesus, we receive the breath of life (His Holy Spirit) and become eternally live people interacting with each other and with Jesus in a life of love. Note. It is hard for a live person to walk with a dead person.
A Short Overview of My Ideal Life: 1; I am born as an infant into a family where both biological parents are together and are alive spiritually ….. I could have both parents dead spiritually ….. Or I could have a split family where one parent is alive and one is dead spiritually …. Or I could only be aware of one parent, dead or alive ….. (All these secondary scenarios will be causing traumas)
2; It is most likely that my mother has mostly child level relational maturity skills and my father has mostly infant level relational maturity skills. This is as per the normal relational maturity levels of our society.
3; By now I am a child. And, I have a handicap to start with since neither of my parents have primarily parent level skills. Since I learn primarily by example, I am stymied in my maturity growth. Hopefully I am in an extended family or church body where there are parents and elders in their maturity and I can learn from them. I will experience some type A trauma due to a lack of having mature parents with adult and parental skills. (Note; Type A trauma happens quietly because there is just an absence of that skill and I think it is normal to be the way my parents are because they are alive spiritually.) As a child I come alive spiritually as I accept Jesus as my Adult Spiritual Brother Who walks the rest of life with me.
4; My “Alive Family” consists of my biological family and all the family in God’s community. These are my brothers and sisters and adults and fathers and mothers and elders. (Mark3:31-34) They are all in various stages of relational maturity. The better I am connected to this family, the fewer holes I will have in my relational maturity as I physically grow older. God is the Father of the community, Jesus is our spiritual Brother, and we remain a family through this life on earth and on into life in heaven.
5; I am now in my late teens and from my sisters (or brothers) I can choose a life mate who is alive and is also my spiritual mate. I do all of the remainder of life here on this earth with my life mate. God will have chosen a course for me to take that will be tailored for my needs and to fill in the gaps I have from deficiencies in my past.
6; My life mate remains my sister (or brother) and I am responsible to and for this person as we mature at different rates. We don’t beat each other up but we call each other up and encourage each other in our maturity walk… Always choosing the walk of love which comes from our operational base of love …
7; I am now an adult and my life mate and I have children of our own. As parents we are now to be the living models of what it is to be a relationally mature parent through all of the situations of life that we encounter in our daily living. These “situations” are used as a part of the tailored made unique program that God has for each of His children. As we walk through these “situations” we grow spiritually and mature relationally.
8; We incorporate each of our children into our daily functions of life according to their age levels and maturity level. They observe, learn, and mature as they watch me as their father (or mother). We are also parents to others in our community.
9; As our children mature and begin to choose their own life mates, we each take our roles as an elder to not only our own children but also to those in our community. We now have walked through this life spiritually alive connected to others who are spiritually alive in our community. Jesus, our brother, has walked with us all the way.
10; Upon physical death I will receive a new heavenly body that isn’t all worn out. My “day” on earth is done and I am united with all of my brothers and sisters who have gone on before me. My earthly spouse is once again my sister (or brother). We have all walked this earthly life together and have encouraged each other and helped each other mature! Without our brother Jesus, we would have never made it.! There is great fullness of Joy in Heaven as we are all gathered together!
Note: This is a brief overview of my life as it should be if I am somewhat normal. Due to many great variations, individual parts of this overview will be expanded for deeper understanding and learning.