Put your sensors down and your feelers up.

There is an epidemic. We think God loves us for some reason. That is not true. We are not important enough to love, and we cannot accomplish anything worthy of love.

I probably would have stayed in Maui if I didn't have kids that I love. It would have definitely been easier to find a job. But that isn't my point. Flying back on a plane, when you get that high up, you realize you don't really matter in the grand scheme of things. Countries, businesses, and world powers rise and fall, and it doesn't matter. We don't matter, and we don't exist because we are important, or needed.

I purposefully put this up on a Sunday. We go to church thinking we matter and what we are doing is important. It's not.

I have always loved easily and well; completely, and without condition. What I have learned is that humans don't respond well to this because we are use to and accustomed to judgement. I have learned that despite your encouragement, belief, and support of someone, eventually everyone caves into judgement.

The hardest thing to accomplish in life is to know yourself, and to know what that means. Judgement is like a storm cloud that never leaves. It clouds everything, and only when the cloud clears can you truly see clearly. In Maui the clouds rarely left the mountains. On my last day there, the cloud left the mountain across the ocean. Until then it was just a dark mass of land. Once the cloud cleared I could clearly see the beauty of the land; and it was gorgeous, full of color and different textures. This wouldn't have happened without the rain clouds.

So the next time you are in the dens of life, remember how beautiful that makes you outside of the dens!