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relationship with God and one another for a Divine purpose.

In His image and likeness, the spiritual and physical aspects of life are at the very center of what is Godly or the causation of life. We must maintain that we are like God in spiritual form and bodily form, as God intended to enter this world in the image and likeness of the man/woman He created. As spiritual and physical beings our existence implies we are to preserve and maintain a perfect sense of order, exercise the self-discipline of love, and to right what is wrong in the world—a tall order to say the least. Spirituality almost has an intellectual mystique that frightens almost everyone because of the inability to define or articulate it, but we can know it’s there and without seeing it, we feel it. That spark that gives us life is spiritual by nature, so we are both spiritual and physical. Spirituality certainly comes into focus when we ask why we have the ability to think or what the purpose of thought is. When the spirit within departs, the body is physically dead and without a purpose. Spirituality is an unseen force linking the natural to the supernatural. We perceive the supernatural in our mind, still yet unseen but known, because we have an ability to make a connection. When you pray you have the cognitive value to perceive the supernatural. Cognition is a mental action of experiencing wisdom, acquiring knowledge, and understanding through thought, in order to experience the senses by which observations of life find the purpose of life. Understandably, cognition is a function within our minds, but where do the thoughts and the information within the thoughts come from? Humans are uniquely different because we have the mental capacities to understand the creative processes and the functioning relationships of all things. We are like God in this regard. The human mind is evidentiary of creation itself because of its ability to observe the order of things and ponder why. Set apart from all other things, we must come to terms with knowing our purpose and the meaning of life. The ability to intellectually comprehend, both the cause and effect, love and hate, is an awesome reality, because we can come to terms with the motivation and comprehend the source. Choosing one over the other dictates our spiritual direction and success. In order to love as it is to be loved, we are motivated by a loving positive force, and are intended to experience the essence of love. Love is not a frame of mind only, it is a

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