True friendship is rare on Earth. It means identifying with someone in thought, heart, and spirit. The whole experience of life is designed to enable us to enter into this closest relationship with God. When God is in your life, the evidence will clearly show in the photograph of your life because you will be strong, calm, balanced.

These are the gifts that God will give you. I learned in time that this benignity, this cordiality, this writing, belonged in no shape to me: it was a part of himself; it was the honey of his temper: it was the balm of his mellow mood; he imparted it, as the ripe fruit rewards with sweetness the rifling bee; he diffused it about him, as sweet plants shed their perfume.

Does the nectarine love either the bee or bird it feeds? Is the sweet-briar enamored of the air?  If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me. Why is this language not clear to you?

Because you are unable to hear what I say; you belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, you do not believe me! Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why do you not believe me?

He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God. I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father and you dishonor me. I am not seeking glory for myself; but there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge. I tell you the truth, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death. Mercy to a criminal may be gross injustice to the community.

There are eight primary emotions: fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, anticipation, joy, and acceptance (receptivity). If the list seems too short, it is because each listed can vary in intensity. Anger, for instance, may vary from rage to simple annoyance. The mildest forms of various emotions are called moods.

A mood is a low intensity, long-lasting emotional state. Moods act as subtle emotional undercurrent that affects much of daily behavior. One of the most interesting things is that when primary emotions mix, they form more complex emotion. For example, 38 year old Rich, the technology guru, feels both joy and fear as he hacks into your computer and steals your images.

The result? Guilt—as you recall from your own childhood. Likewise, jealousy could be a mixture of love, anger, and fear.  We blame people, who go to see foreign countries, without first acquiring some knowledge of their own. What a figure most of us will make in the next World if questioned by its inhabitants about that we have left.

The human mind program is an extensive plain, and knowledge is the river that should water it. Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given when Jesus Christ is revealed. As obedient men and women, do not conform to ungodly desires you have when you lived in ignorance.

The primary emotions we have discussed can be further reduced to just two categories: beneficial and negative. Ordinarily, we might think that optimistic emotions and undesirable sentiments are opposites. However, this is not the case. As Rich’s data breach guilt implies, people can experience encouraging and adverse emotions at the same time.

How is this possible? Recording of brain activity show that good emotions are mainly processed in the right hemisphere of your mind program; however, deleterious emotions are processed in the right hemisphere of your mind program. The fact that constructive and destructive emotions are based on different areas of your mind program helps explain why we can feel happy and sad at the same time.

To a large degree, the physical aspects of emotion are innate, or built into the body. The physical reactions of a zoologist frightened by a wild animal and an urbane city dweller frighten by a prowler are quite similar. Fear brings one into more dangers than the caution that goes along with it delivers one from.

Reactions to unpleasant emotions are especially consistent. Typically , they include muscle tensions, a pounding heart, irritability, dryness of the throat and mouth, sweating, bubbly guts, frequent urination, trembling, restlessness, sensitivity to loud noises, and a large number of internal changes. These reactions are nearly universal because they are called by the autonomic nervous system (ANS) (the neural system that connects the brain with the internal organs and glands).

The ANS is automatic and not normally under voluntary control. There are two divisions of the ANS, one called the sympathetic branch and the other the parasympathetic branch. The two branches are active at all times. Whether you are relaxed or aroused depends on the combined activity of both branches.

In general the sympathetic branch activates the body for emergence action—for fighting or fleeing. It does this by arousing a number of bodily systems and inhibiting others. These changes have a purpose. Sugar is released into the bloodstream for quick energy, the heart beats faster to supply the blood to the muscles, digestion is temporarily inhibited, blood flow in the skin is restricted to reduce bleeding, and so forth. Most sympathetic reactions improve the chances of surviving an emergency.

The parasympathetic branch generally reverses emotional arousal and calms and relaxes the body. After a period of high emotion the heart is slowed, the pupils return to normal size, blood pressure drops, and so forth. In addition to restoring balance, the parasympathetic system helps build up and conserve bodily energy.

There parasympathetic system, responds much more slowly than the sympathetic system. This is why increased heart rate, muscle tension, and other signs of arousal do not fade for 20 to 30 minutes after you experience an intense emotion, such as fear. Moreover, after a strong emotional shock, the parasympathetic system may overreact and lower blood pressure too much. This is why people sometimes become dizzy or faint at the sight of blood and other such shocks.

Sudden death—as noted, the parasympathetic system may overact during intense fear or after any period of intense emotion. This response is called a parasympathetic rebound. So if a group of reporters keeps harassing a young man, for fun, and all the time, and he is displaying signs of weakness, trouble keeping balance, and pain, they could very well be killing him slowly. When it is severe it can sometimes cause sudden death.

In times of war, combat can be so savage that some soldiers literally die from fear. Apparently, such deaths are caused when the parasympathetic nervous system overreacts and slows the heart to a stop. Even in civilian life this is possible. In one case, a terrified young man was admitted to a hospital because he felt he was going to die.

A medical specialist had predicted that the young man’s brother and sister (in respective order) would die before their 16^th and 21^st birthdays. Both died as predicted. The specialist also predicted that this young man would die before his 27^th birthday. He was found dead, in his hospital bed, the day after he was admitted. It was four months prior to his birthday 21^st.. The young man was an apparent victim of his own terror.

Is the parasympathetic nervous system always responsible for such deaths? Probably not; in the case of seniors or those with heart problems, direct sympathetic activation may be enough to cause a heart attack. For example, five times more people than usual died of heart attacks on the day of a major earthquake in Los Angeles.

Medical doctor Stephan Richard Shapiro found that almost half of all sudden deaths are associated with the traumatic disruption of a close relationship, such as the anniversary of the death of a loved one. Recently widowed men, for instance, have a sudden death rate of 40 percent higher than married men of the same age. Clearly, relationships are one of the most potent sources of human emotional responses.

However, as weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. The Sun of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do malicious acts. The angels will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Then the righteous will shine like the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father. Everyone who has ears, listen to the warning. You may think that teasing and harassment is fun, but there is a cost you will pay for your insidious behavior, and that price is your soul, you will not make it to the Kingdom of Heaven.