“Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner Nature is being renewed day by day … because we look not to that which can be seen but rather into that which cannot be seen; for what is visible is temporary, while what cannot be seen is Eternal.” ~ Paul (2 Corinthians 4:17-18)

 

While Paul is correct to remind us that our bodies are indeed “wasting away” bit by bit, day by day – that we are indeed steadily approaching that unknown, great moment when we will pass from this life into whatever lays in wait beyond its limitations of body & mind (what many call “death”), he is not fully correct in his later assumptions in this same passage … For we most certainly do not automatically become renewed day by day – rather, we must choose to become that renewal (via radical acts of Joy-full self-sacrifice and irrational acts of selfless Kindness).  In addition, we most certainly do not attain said renewal by merely choosing to see the invisible holiness within another, but rather we experience that sacred rebirth in every moment we choose to act harmoniously towards the same.

 

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