Feeling a strong desire for the manifestation of the glory of God, we make him the focus of our lives, in order to trace the continuity of pure logic. There are things going on that we cannot understand and do not know how to address, and our soul’s thirsts for God’s power and glory is an insatiable hunger, a search for something eternal, the unlimited development. Prayer is desire in its essence as response to the mystery in which we exist.  God is the supreme desire of our hearts, and is supreme in everything. We long for fulfillment of the soul to feel God’s extravagant love at each turn, a desire for God to release Heaven’s fullness to overflow into our essence. Spiritual peace will lead to deep places in God’s heart, where he loves to meet our craving for him with abundance. God honors and blesses spiritual desire for union with him. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled” (Matthew 5.6). The sense of being hungry for God is painful, yet the mere wanting is felt to be somehow a delight. Other desires are felt as pleasures only if satisfaction is expected in the near future: hunger is pleasant only while we know (or believe) that we are soon going to eat. However, even when we do not know when this possible satisfaction will come, it causes us to pray and focus on God more intensely. #RandolphHarris 1 of 7

We are drawn to God’s celestial beauty. The hunger for God continues to be prized, and even preferred to anything else in the World, by those who have once felt it. It is the quest for eternal peace. This hunger is better than any other fullness; this poverty better than all other wealth. The soul at the very moment is being rejuvenated, as it seeks and finds the will of God in the disposition of our life for salvation. May it please the Divine Wisdom to grant that we may always know God’s most holy will and find our peace and happiness in ever fulfilling it. With God’s health, we have to do everything in our power to get rid of sin and disorder in our lives. The courageous, and total acceptance of life and of oneself when everything tangible seems to be a mystery is the creating time when God’s blessing is coming to fruition. We can discover God in every human experience. Prayer is oneness of mind and heart in the presence of infinite mystery. Prayer is an opportunity to find God’s will as he communicates with us. God, thank you for creating our World, and giving us a chance to grow. Thank you for allowing us to appreciate life. God, thank you for the grace that has allowed us the gift of claiming responsibility for our loves, and teaching us to love ourselves as well as others. #RandolphHarris 2 of 7

We are offered the possibility of losing ourselves in the past or in the crowd or of seizing new possibilities, especially those opened up by faith in God. Freedom is found in the grace of God. It is a blessing that we have the healthy power over our lives and circumstances. The religious philosophy for the hunger of God and immortality involves a mysterious sense of divine presence. The presence of God is found in a spiritual dimension of human existence, an ontological point where the divine and the human meet. This mysterious presence of the divine cannot be objectified; it takes form in an intuitive faith. It is the idea of the reciprocal action of the divine and human, of the penetration of the supernatural into the natural. To believe in God is to wish for him and be unable to live without him. God is the higher intellectual conscience, overseeing one’s ordinary conscience. That superior form of consciousness is an unerring internal court within each individual that gives us a sense of responsibility. A pure spiritual enlightenment outshines the simple mental admonition of knowing oneself. A spiritual enlightenment gives a white-hot divine flame that sears the heart, mind, and being—leaving behind a pure heart and consciousness. It makes us fit and pure utensils or vessels to greet the Most High. Layer upon layer are peeled away until only the soul, the true self remains. #RandolphHarris 3 of 7

The essence of goodness consists in this that is some way desirable. Goodness is what we all desire. In nature there is nothing contingent, but all things have been determined from the necessity of the divine nature to exist and produce an effect in a certain way. Taking delight in God’s love will transform our experience. A we ponder God’s love and all that it means, it will help us, it will enable us. God’s love is unconditional, and his love is very different from human love. God’s love is not based on feelings or emotions. God loves us because he is love. He created us to have a loving relationship with him. There is no such thing as love without God. God’s love for us is spontaneous and unmotivated, revealing not that we merit that love, but that God’s nature is love. If God is truly our delight, then we will surely find him filling our thoughts, right? We will find that we remember him constantly. Then, when our minds are roaming freely in the night that our thoughts easily and naturally turn to God. Whatever is, is in God, and nothing can be or be conceived without God.  The ultimate proper object of love is God, who is the highest good absolutely. However, God’s goodness is also revealed in every human person, given that every human being is made in the image of God. Thus, the proper object of love also includes human beings. #RandolphHarris 4 of 7

Only acts that accord with rationality contribute to a human being’s moral goodness, and as far as a good human being is a moral one, a rational action is always a moral action. God loves human beings by helping them to maximize their capacity for reason, which is to love the good and act in accordance with it. However, the ultimate good is God, so the nature of human beings is fulfilled by loving and obeying God. Love desires the goodness of things, and since being and goodness are identical annihilation is an unloving act. A love of someone requires that we try to know that person as well as we can, to learn about his or her life as well as we can, and to respond appropriately to him or her. God loves us and this makes us valuable. God’s bestowal of love is the origin of all value. Love is a creative activity because it illuminates the beloved’s potential and allows him or her to become a better person. If someone loves me, then I am more likely to think of myself as a valuable being who is capable of much; if I am not loved, then it will be hard for me to recognize my own worth. When we love something, it means we are concerned for its well-being. As loving begins when we can respond to another person, and are able to experience his or her own desires and needs as being as import to our own, it helps to affirm that love is the fulfillment of human life. #RandolphHarris 5 of 7

We truly cannot love God if we do not love our fellow travelers on this mortal journey. The great test of life is obedience to God. God has the power to bring us into loving fellowship with the him and one another. Humanity that is expressed both affirms and evokes the ultimate value of human life and the sense in which we all belong to each other as a part of the greater community of men and women that cannot be denied. We need to continually deepen our knowledge of and obedience to Heavenly Father. Our relationship with God is eternal. We are his beloved children, and that will not change. We shall love the Lord, our God, with all our heart, and will all our soul, and with all our mind. Every day of our lives, we are given opportunities to show love and kindness to those around us. Forgiveness should go hand in hand with love. In our families, as well as with our friends, there can be hurt feelings and disagreements. Again, it does not really matter how small the issues was. It cannot and should not be left to canker, to fester, and ultimately to destroy. Blame keeps wounds open. Only forgiveness heals. As we rise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come out way so that we might have eternal life. As we come to understand this incomparable gift, our hearts will be filled with love for our Eternal Father. #RandolphHarris 6 of 7

God Almighty, we thank you for our lives, and ask you to allow us have pure experience in life, knowledge of the eternal. Grant us absolute free will and access to the eternal now, and let perpetual light shine upon us. May our souls be given compassion, and teach us to love our hidden spiritual life with you. May we see all things in God and have knowledge of the Divine ideas. Let us have truth, be proud, and high-minded. May the affection of God arrogate to great force and penetrate our minds as to go about to comprehend and determine what God can, and ought to do. So that if we would but carry about us this thought, that our minds are to be considered as finite, but God as incomprehensible and infinite, there would be no further difficulty in any of their objections. The immediate cause of pleasure for us is God, who is, therefore, the sole and proper object of our love. Happiness consists of the enjoyment of pleasure, guided by the exercise of reason towards the greatest happiness, that is, God. We attribute the way of intuition to the most perfect beings, God and Angels. Please give us the great privilege of Heaven, and encourage both desires and hopes of that perfect state. May we express our devotion as to comprehend under it faith, hope, love, fear, trust, humility, submission, honour, reverence, adoration, thanksgiving in a duty to which we owe God. #RandolphHarris 7 of 7