Dear Elder Snowflake,

Whether life knocks you down or lifts you up, your character determines your level of endurance, bravery, grace and humility.  

No one can determine your character except yourself.  

In every test of character, you have the choice; the choice is up to you to be the better person.

Safeguard the person the Lord meant for you to be and become the person the Lord intended for you to be.

The gifts of love and regard bestowed upon you by your mother, family and friends, hopefully will carry you through any hardship and guide you  Home.

Affection or Esteem?

Kindred,

If you had to choose between love's affection or esteem, which will you choose?

What about the Lord's Love or Esteem?

The Love of the Lord granted to all who can receive, but not so with Esteem.

The question then becomes can you fully receive Love or have It without esteem of self and the Esteem of the Lord?  

Can you really have the affection of love without esteem of self and love?

The Real Plays

Kindred,

There are chess players and then there are chess masters.  

Whichever kind of player you are, you cannot play forever, because we cannot live forever. 

The ultimate long game is decided on Judgement Day.

It does not matter how many plays won, if ultimately, lost is your salvation. 

Keep in mind when you play, what the ultimate end game will be and how the Lord's Judgement will be played.

Present Your Best Self

Kindred,

When you stand before the Lord, how will you present yourself?

Most people present the best parts of themselves to please and appease the Lord. 

What are the parts of yourself will you present?

Keep in mind that this is Judgement Day and you are in spirit form.

If you thought to present with your face or any part of your body or skin, perish the thought for it would not be possible.  

If you thought to present your power of Caesar or power of the mind, perish the thought for it would not be possible for one and for the latter no power is greater than the Lord's or even comparable (the Lord is not interested in the feable powers of limited minds).

What can be presented are your true colors or self. 

Now, what are these colors (of the soul) and what will you present? 

The Holy Spirit

Kindred,

What exactly do you think comprises the essence of the Holy Spirit?  

I will give you a clue.  It has nothing to do with power or anything of Caesar.

It is a gentleness that can pass through any wall;

It is a warmth that warm any frozen heart;

It is a healing of well- being of the soul that makes whole any broken spirit and vanquishes all sin;

It is in its essence Love and Peace combined.