I look forward to the Winter nights. I love them for they are long and quiet; night is a long beautiful dream. In these dreams I can travel abroad with you. All of these night stories make me realise how the past does not help when we are put in a tight spot. You recently told me that you have a rough day and since you do not drink nor do drugs that you put on music from the past. Music that reminded you of a prosperous time, when there was a lot of money, many happy people, and there was always a good time to be had. These people introduced you to new types of music and European foods you have never tried before. Memories are all well and good to hold on to, but it is the promise of making new memories that helps me to push through. I never told you, but I was shot down over France, right before the evacuations. I knew if I admitted to you in Plymouth, you would be so worried, you would never let me get back on that train. If I stopped to remember how it feels to duck down in a strafing, with nothing between me and the bullets but my helmet and laces hands over my neck, if I stopped to remember the miles of slogging, only to see the lads in front of me stumble upon a mine, if I stopped to remember crouching in the dark, not knowing whether the whine of the next shell had my name on it, if I stopped to remember the mutter comments around me of lads who did not know that I had been up there, doing my job, I would never move forward. I have to just keep telling myself that I will be back with you in no time. Nothing else I can do. #RandolphHarris 1 of 13

If Heaven is free from rough edges, how will virtues, so dearly brought into this World, survive within?  As much as I try to push the past aside so that I keep moving forward, nothing is holding you back that way. You have more questions than memories, more mystery than enlightenment. You have to look behind you. The present and the future are built on the past. I know that you want to find where you came from before you will never know where to go. Do not give up. Disagreeable neighbours? They are to match for you. You cannot successfully operate faith principles apart from being led by the Spirit. “If you abide in Me, and My word abide in you, you will ask for what you desire, and it shall be done for you,” reports John 15.7. When it comes to acting on your faith, God will direct you. Fait does not exist by itself. Faith requires an object. It must be faith in something or someone. In that respect, faith is like love. Love cannot exist without an object. Love is meaningless unless it is directed toward something or someone. We love our parents. We love our brothers and sisters. We love God. We love the World. We love our life. Faith is the same. If we think we have faith, we should ask, faith in whom or faith in what? For some, faith is nothing more than faith in themselves. That is only self-confidence or self-centeredness. #RandolphHarris 2 of 13

Others have faith in faith, which is something like relying on the power of motivational thinking or betting on the proposition that we can get what we want by manipulating the powers within us. However, the scriptures teach us that faith comes by hearing the word of God. “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, reports Romans 10.17. God knows and loves us and will hear our prayers and answer them with what is best for us. In fact, God will do more than what is best for us. He will do what is best for us and all of our Heavenly Father’s children. The conviction that the Lord knows more than we do and that he will answer our prayers in the best way for us and for all of his other children is a vital ingredient of faith in the Lord. We must always pray for protection, success, and good conditions to take us to our destination. Miracles are the realm we are made for. When someone says, “That is going to take a miracle”—that is our realm. That is God’s natural operation. God is always ready to perform a miracle. If you need a miracle in your life, it is waiting on you. “May God raise you from death by power of Resurrection and from everlasting death by power of Atonement,” reports 2 Nephi 10.25. #RandolphHarris 3 of 13

God, as the highest, richest, and most intensely real being, is the supreme good, and everything that he has brought into existence is ipso facto good. For this reason the corruption which we call evil can never be complete; for if s thing becomes so vitiated in nature that it ceases to exit, the evil which is parasitic upon it must also cease to exist. Hence, there can be no wholly evil being. Nothing evil exists in itself, but only as an evil aspect of some actual entity. Thus, everything that God has created is good, and the phenomenon of evil occurs only when beings which are intrinsically good (though mutable) become corrupted and spoiled. How does this spoiling of God’s initially good creation come about? Evil has entered into the Universe through the culpable volitions of free creatures, Angels, and people. Their sin consisted, not in choosing positive evil (for there is no positive evil to choose), but in turning away from the higher good, namely Go, to a lower good. For when the will abandons what is above itself, and turns to what is lower, becomes evil—not because that is evil to which it turns, but because the turning itself is wicked. Natural evils, such as disease, are divinely ordained consequences of the primeval fall of humans, and thus all evils are either directly or indirectly traced back to a wicked misuse of creaturely freedom: There are two kinds of evil, sin and the penalty for sin. It is as if one sought to see darkness, or hear silence. #RandolphHarris 4 of 13

God, who sees timelessly and as a whole the entire moving panorama of created history, the Universe is Good. To Thee there is no such thing as evil, and even in thy whole creation, taken as a whole, there is not. However, a Universe where people are allowed the freedom of will and the right to choose their own behaviour, and which contains as many different kinds of entities as possible (lower as well as higher, lesser as well as greater), is better than Universe—one which more adequately expresses the infinite creativity of God—than would a Universe which contains only the highest type of created beings. There is thus an immense hierarchy of forms of created existence, and each creature, in its own proper place in the scheme of nature, is good and glorifies its Maker. Those that are lower in the scale of being are not on that account evil; they are just different goods, contributing in their different ways to the perfection of the Universe. Again, things that are transitory by nature, appearing and then perishing within the every-changing pattern of nature’s beauty, contribute, even by their death, to the perfection of the created order. The notion of evil, by providing a contrast, makes the good shine more brightly. There is nothing that God has not provided or will not provide for us in this life, and faith is the key that unlocks the door. #RandolphHarris 5 of 13

Spiritual life is so important. Faith pleases God. “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him,” reports Hebrews 11.6. This is how we receive salvation. It is power that brings signs, miracles, wonders and manifestations of God’s promises. The Lord is look to people with faith to show himself strong to. “For yes, the eyes of the LORD range throughout the Earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him,” reports 2Chronicales 16.9. As long as sin is exactly balanced by just punishment, it does not upset the moral harmony of the Universe. Since there is happiness for those who do not sin, the Universe is perfect; and it is no less perfect because there is misery for sinners. So, whatever a soul may choose, ever beautiful and well-ordered in all its parts is the Universe whose Maker and Governor is God. The eternal possibilities of existence are individually present to the Divine Mind which, like an infallible calculating machine, surveys all possible combinations and selects the best, to which it then gives existence. Some of us need the manifestation of God’s power in our lives today, and the answer is to have faith. #RandolphHarris 6 of 13

God created humans with no sin in them and set them in a World devoid of evil. However, humans willfully misused their God-given freedom and fell into sin. Some people will be redeemed by God’s grace, and others will be condemned to eternal punishment. In all of this, God’s goodness and justice alike are manifested. “Have faith in God,” reports Mark 11.22. We, in the Word of Faith circle, understand the power of our words. We know we will have what we say, so we are careful to speak only right words and refrain from speaking words against the desired outcome. “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you will have received it, and it will be yours. And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him or her, so that your Father in Heaven may forgive you your sins,” Mark 11.24-25. If God had created a World in which natural law were continuously adjusted for the avoidance of all pain, the more heroic human virtues would never be evoked. Indeed, a great part of our present moral language would be meaningless. There would be no such things as doing harm, for no one would be able to suffer any kind of injury; there would be no such thing as doing good, for there would be no needs, deficiencies or occasions for improvement. #RandolphHarris  7 of 13

Furthermore, if human beings did not have free will there would be no such thing as a crime or a benefaction, an act of generosity or of meanness, of kindness or unkindness; and there would be no situations to which such qualities as courage, fortitude, loyalty, honesty, and the caring and protective aspects of love would be appropriate responses. There would thus be no occasions for moral choice. Such a World would be ill-designed to evoke many of the human traits which we value most highly. Indeed, it would seem that the rough edges of the World—its challenges, dangers, tasks, difficulties, and possibilities of real failure and loss—constitute a necessary element in an environment which is to call forth human’s finer qualities. Revelation comes from allowing and expecting the Word of God to be quickened to our spirit and change us on the inside. For faith to come, we must keep renewing our mind and building our testimony until we feel it and know it is there. Real faith has a foundation. And that foundation is that we have heard from God about our situation either in his word or by his speaking to our spirit. There is no limitations to an omnipotent God’s capacity to create beings endowed with specific personal characteristics. Virtues have been formed as a result of making real decisions in real situations of moral choices and they are of greater value than the analogous virtue created by divine fiat. #RandolphHarris 8 of 13

It is reasonable to suppose that the Creator is not content to build into humans the merely ready-made and unearned qualities. God wants us to develop these heroic human virtues. Much like a parent teaches their kids to obey, but does not want to always have to watch over them. However, when the parent is not around and the child behaves out of their own volition, it makes a parent proud that they do not have to watch the child every moment of ever day get him or her to behave. It becomes ingrained in the child’s free will that he or she wants to behave because it is the right thing to do. Although evil have the ability to crush the human spirit as often as it has developed it, and people have collapsed before life’s challenges and opportunities, they still have risen triumphantly to meet them by using their free will. When the Spirit of God reaches inside of us, it turns the lights on because real faith in God gets real results every time. Manifestations are not always instantaneous—there are times when patience needs to have its perfect work. “Let patience have her perfect work, that one may be perfect and entire, wanting noting. If anyone you lack wisdom, let one ask of God, that give to all people liberally and upbraided not; and it shall be given to one,” reports James 1.4-5. Faith will always bring results because faith never faiths. #RandolphHarris 9 of 13

We know God is in charge of this World and that he loves us and has a plan for us, and we can and should choose and should seek to believe in our Savior. Real faith does not get frustrated. If we are frustrated with our situation or frustrated with how long it is taking to see a manifestation—we are not in faith. We believe we receive when we pray—not when it comes to pass. Real faith is expecting—expecting God to work miracles, expecting to see manifestations of the Holy Spirit. How can we tell if we are expecting? Excitement. If we have no excitement, we are not in faith because we are waiting for something to excite us. “You can ask for anything in my name and I will do it,” reports John 14.13. So, we must examine our faith—did we ask God? Is it his will? Then we should be expecting. Faith is full of anticipation. That is the key to seeing miracles in our lives—expectancy. If we are expecting, we will see results. God is always ready to perform a miracle. Accordingly, this type of theodicy demands completion in an eschatology. It points toward the eternal happiness of human beings in a society with one another and in communion with God, which is symbolized by the Kingdom of Heaven; and its fuller claim is that the final fulfillment of God’s purpose for his creatures in his Heavenly kingdom constitutes a good so great and enduring that it justifies all the pains which have been experiences in order to reach it. #RandolphHarris 10 of 13

Eastern thought has suggested that there may be continuous reincarnation of souls through the levels of existence. She is telling you the truth. She was in love with an American. More than that—she made is sound like fairy tale. A chance letter that sparked years of correspondence, finding blots of love between each word on the page. Depending on the post more than the tides and the Moon. Even war could not stop what blossomed between them. She did not lie about either the America nor how she felt. However, it was not the time for all that. It was not the time to fall in love.  Thus, pain is not wasted, but is part of a long constructive process. Wartime romance? I only hope the reason was big enough, threatening enough, lasting enough, to make it worth it. How wonderful that someone can be celibate. Love is something that takes time. Of course I am curious, because having adult relations is not a birthright; you do not meet those very often. I am impressed with religious people who can maintain a vow of celibacy. However, there is a sharp increase in the number of celibate young men, and it could be a warning sign. We ignore it or laugh at it since as a society we do not care about your young men (that is why we blithely send them to die in pointless foreign wars. 14.2 percent of young men are celibate. People even try to demonize and force celibate young men into sex, as if they have a right to use their bodies. #RandolphHarris 11 of 13

I think he really loved her, but wanted to take their relationship slow. He must have been old fashioned and believed in romances like Sleeping Beauty. In romance, there was no sex. It was just a kiss and then they got married. People spend time getting to know their partner. There are so many women around here with a “Mrs.” Before their name, but no man at home. I had assumed her story was the same—some sad youthful marriage that ended on a battlefield somewhere. For what reason was Adam and Eve cast out of the Garden of Eden in the first place? And humankind has ever since paid the terrible price of their sin by continuing wit the sex act in the same old manner. With celibacy, there is a strong emphasis on love, ecstasy, and lasting commitment. There also must be miraculous heights of spiritual awareness, perfect love, perfect relationships, bliss, inner joy and concentration. In spite of the lack of understanding regarding celibacy, there is an obvious benefit from abstanting from the sex for long period of time that very few seem to understand or appreciate. Stored sexual energy properly transmuted gives one a definite psychological boost such as a greater sense of purpose, better memory, concentration and more interest in doing what is needed or required while giving one a feeling of reward in accomplishment. One tends to look forward to getting things done in a creative way while enjoying much greater motivation, bliss, joy, resilience, determination, and love for one’s duty. #RandolphHarris 12 of 13

My Russian friend told me that he is sure God appreciate my celibacy and it might even attract more favour in his eyes. One’s vital emotional health energy and sexual energy are interdependent. Therefore, whenever one’s sexual energy is used up, a large part of one’s mental energy and healing physical vitality get lost, and fascinatingly enough, one cannot successfully or correctly increase one’s sexual energy without the side effect of improving one’s health! Even dreams tend to be more frequent, blissful, colourful and more spiritual, and the possibility of achieving astral projection, deep and cosmic consciousness is also greatly improved. Conventional sex causes serious changes in one’s brain chemistry often leaving one more irritable, angry, spiritually dead, separated from wholeness, closed minded, attached, addicted, and competitive all for the purpose of increasing one’s tendency to fight other or compete with others for food, mates, shelter, etc. as part of means of speeding up the evolutionary process. People who are celibate tend to be naturally happy because their life force energy has not been disrupted by sheer blast of hormones, and they tend to be more carefree, energetic, and much more resilient to stress. It also prevents unwanted infirmary and unwanted lifestyles. The law of chastity is a moral code and under this code, all members are taught to be morally clean in their thoughts, words, and actions. Besides, it is nice to look at someone and know he is not having sex, that is different and good. #RandolphHarris 13 of 13