Going to Heaven! I do not know when, pray do not ask me how—indeed, I am too astonished to think of answering you! Going to Have how dim it sounds! And yet it will be done as sure as flocks go to the house at night unto the shepherd’s arm! Perhaps you are going too! Who knows? If you should get there first, save just a little place for me close to the two I lost! The smallest “robe” will fit me, and just a bit of “crown royal;” for you know we do not mind our suits when we are going to the house. I am glad I do not believe it, for it would stop my breath, and I would like to look a little more at such a curious Earth! Have you ever watched the Earth set from the Moon, it is such a glorious sight? Imagine seeing a blue moon, in a black sky. I am glad they did believe it whom I have never found since the mighty Autumn afternoon I left them in the ground. We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the growth of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.  #RyanPhillippe 1 of 6

At least to pray is left, is left. O Christ in the air I know not which thy chamber is—I am knocking everywhere. Thou stirrest Earthquake in the South, and maelstrom in the sea; say, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, hast thou no arm for me? The Christian worker must be so closely identified with his Lord and the reality of His redemption that Christ can continually bring His creating life through him. When we preach the historical facts of the life and death of our Lord as they are conveyed in the New Testament, our words are made sacred. God uses these words, on the basis of His redemption, to create something in those who listen which otherwise could never have been created. I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. He can crush me, exalt me, or do anything else He chooses. He simply asks me to have absolute faith in Him and His goodness. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 6

Stuff of legend, vulgar names, hunter of the night, locked out of the day forever, living off human life force, hunt the evil ones only, feed on the trash lives if there are such things, always thriving among humankind, from the dawn of time, pass for human, body transformed by the Blood, perfected within its potential by the Blood Paris, Aaliyah, me. You are right, you see, she is dead, but only to human life. I worked the magic. Filled her with the enlivening Blood. Accept. It is done. It is irreversible. I did it. A dying girl defined by pain and fear could not consent. Two centuries ago, I did not consent. A year ago, Paris did not say yes to it. Maybe no one really consents. It was my conviction and my power. Lay the sin on me. And so she thrives. And so she hunts the filthy blood. However, she is Aaliyah again. The night belongs to her, and by day the Sun cannot find her. I am guilty. Lay all the blame on me. I read my sentence steadily, reviewed it with my eyes, to see that I made no mistake in its extremest clause—the date, and the manner of the shame; and then the pious for that “God have mercy” on the soul. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 6

The jury voted him. I made my soul familiar with her extremity, that at the last is should not be a novel agony. However, she and Death, acquainted, meet tranquility as friends, salute and pass without a hint—and there the matter ends. Yet God, as first cause, can suspend or transform secondary causes in order to perform his will. When he does so, his action is called a miracle. A miracle does not violate nature. It is a case of nature behaving in an abnormal way through a special act of the same creative power which is at work in the normal processes that can be subsumed at work in the normal process that can be subsumed under scientific laws. If the essence of finite being is to be dependent on God’s will (and so to possess a potentia obedientialis in relations to the theology of miracles, and natural order’s relationship to the supernatural), miraculous acts are not less natural than nonmiraculous ones. However, while the abnormal character as an act of God can be discerned by faith alone. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 6

In most systems of religion and philosophy, God is endowed with characteristics that distinguish him from others beings. The infinity of the Christian God was implied above in the accounts of his transcendence and creative power, and in most systems, God’s infinity makes him free, in degree, if not in kind, from at least some human limitations. However, he is not strictly infinite unless he is limitless throughout the whole range of his existence. He can be wholly limitless, however, if only he is self-existent and thereby self-sufficient. If God needs the World as the sphere of his self-development, he copies an independent realm of Forms, he is pro tanto (for so much) limited. He is strictly infinite only if his essence is identical with existence. If God is thus infinite, he must possess all properties in a mode that is free from every limitation. He must be one, simple, incorporeal, immutable, impassible, eternal, good, omniscient, and omnipotent. If you believe in God, you believe in at least one ghost and the supernatural. God exists in a threefold form as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is one substance (substantia, ousia) in three persons (personae, hypostaseis). #RyanPhillippe 5 of 6

Incorporeality is an aspect of God or an unfolding of his essence. Thus, God is identified with nature’s basic elements, air and fire. God is a bright and very subtle substance. Impassibility is equivalent to immutability, if it means that God cannot suffer change from either an external or an internal cause. However, it has also been taken to mean that God cannot experience pain. While there is an apparent contradiction between this last meaning and Biblical descriptions of God’s love, it has been maintained by some theologians (but denied by others) that, although Christ experienced pain in his human nature, God cannot experience it in himself, for, being wholly perfect, he is pure joy. Determination and zeal are found in obeying God, not in the inclination to serve Him. It is inconceivable, but true nevertheless, that saints are simply doing work for God that has been instigated by their own human nature and has not been made spiritual through determined discipline. We have a tendency to forget that a person is not committed to Christ for salvation but also committed, responsible, and accountable to Christ’s view of God, the World, and sin. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 6