:Stewardship:

As a principle of temporal law, the Church has always supported the concept of ownership. As a reality of the times when our Lord walked among us, even slavery was a common form of ownership and it is recognized that one can be a slave and yet obtain the eternal freedom of Heaven. In fact it is undoubtedly easier to do so as a slave to another soul than as a slave to the wealth of this world. We choose freely to enslave ourselves willingly to our King and Queen, giving up enslavement to our own ego. We free ourselves from enslavement to finite things and earthly ideas and limited knowledge, temporal power and fictitious money. We freely enslave ourselves to infinite things, heavenly ideals, unlimited knowledge, divine power and the true riches we store in Heaven as we live out our salvation through the great Gospel of Love.

As a principle of divine law, nothing is made that is not made by our Lord. All belongs to Him whom we call our divine Father, Brother and Life itself. There is no work of art, no turn of phrase, no corner of the earth nor depth of the sea that is not already His before we even begin to be. There is no patent, no copyright, no contract, no law, no constitution, no bond, no agreement, yea not a wink or a nod that is not His own. For all that is is in the mind of God before any of what is is. For God is not bound as we are here to time. God is the great Before and After of all things, and his Thoughts the substance of the Here and the Now. What are Angels but the formations of God's thoughts. Who are we but formations of those very Angels, rank upon file, following in humble servitude the Master of all Minds: the Master-Mind of this womb of Heaven.

Only a God of infinite Love could allow what is weakest in Heaven to be Free to eddie and coil into the mortal embrace of self that is time and space: spiral galaxies; spinning planets... taking a week's vacation from perfection for the gestation of a new form in the oldest image: Man.

God's greatest thoughts in the angelic Kingdom are so like unto God that in their personification as Angels they can hardly help but think themselves capable of independent creation. And indeed in God's inimitable way, they are, as God knows well. And so in the spiral vortices of the DNA like the ancient serpent conspiring in all life pulses the original phonon of Adam's cry for help. A cry which not only has God not denied, but has stepped into the spiral ring, tag teaming for us as the new Adam Himself. In the great drama that is the entertainment of all Heaven, He has achieved the ultimate knock-out, not in the last round but after all but the pure gave up the match for over. He knocked out the door of death and openned a Way for us to follow.

Give and we shall most assuredly receive. Ask and all will be given to us. Seek and we can only find. Empty ourselves and we can then be filled. We must only begin to follow and we have arrived.