A Kindred Spirit

I came across the testimony of Blaise Pascal, a remarkable scientist who, like me, was blessed with the Holy Spirit. Pascal lived in France during the 17th century. He was a renaissance man. He was a mathematician and a physicist. He made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators (the predecessors of our modern day computers), the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote powerfully in defense of the scientific method.

Pascal was a mathematician of the first order. He helped create two major new areas of research. He wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the ripe old age of sixteen. Beginning in 1654, he corresponded with the great Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.

In late 1654, Pascal's life changed forever. On the evening of November 23, Pascal saw Christ while reading John 17:

After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began. (John 17:1-5)

Pascal recorded his spiritual re-birth on a piece of parchment. His testimony was found sewn into his clothing after his death on August 19, 1662. I've reprinted Pascal's testimony below. As you will see, it is powerful and beautiful (note the references to the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23).

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THE MEMORIAL

Year of Grace 1654

From about half past ten at night to about half an hour after midnight,

FIRE

"God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob" (Exodus 3:6), not of philosophers and scholars.

Certitude, heartfelt joy, peace.

God of Jesus Christ.

God of Jesus Christ.

"My God and Your God" (John 20:17).

"Your God shall be my God" (Ruth 1:16).

The world forgotten, everything except God.

He can only be found by the ways that have been taught in the Gospels.

Greatness of the human soul.

"O righteous Father, the world has not known You, but I have known You" (John 17:25).

Joy, Joy, Joy, tears of joy.

I have separated myself from him.

"They have forsaken me, the spring of living water" (Jeremiah 2:13).

"My God, will you leave me?" (cf. Matthew 27:46).

Let me not be cut off from him for ever!

"Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent" (John 17:3).

Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ.

I am separated from him; for I have shunned him, denied him, crucified him.

May I never be separated from him.

He can only be kept by the ways taught in the gospel.

Complete and sweet renunciation.

Total submission to Jesus Christ and to my director.

Everlasting joy in return for one day's striving upon earth.

"I will not neglect your Word" (Psalm 119:16). Amen (913-29,61)

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Source: Mind on Fire, Edited by Dr. James M. Houston

Pascal didn't tell anybody about his blessing - not even his sister Jacqueline. But he carried his testimony wherever he went.

After Pascal's conversion at the age of thirty-one, he recorded how his mind blazed with the burning conviction being overwhelmed by light. Pascal's heart shined! A certitude seized him that endowed him with a new level of knowledge. For many years he had examined God merely as a series of concepts, as any brilliant scientist would do. Now he stood before God's presence and the reality of God himself. With the heart of Jesus, Pascal saw that man was given the gift of a new dimension of knowledge, the entry into a new level of existence.

It was during the remaining eight short years of his life that Pascal's "Pensees" (the French word for "Thoughts") were produced. Pascal clearly saw that through reason alone one could not come to understand all of realty. Knowledge cannot ascertain the whole; it can only replace the wholeness with a pretension to the whole. Pascal saw that faith sees beyond the limitations of reason. He understood the centrality of the heart.

In "Pensees," Pascal wrote:

"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. This is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason."

Pascal discovered, as I did, that the mind is not what perceives God and His love, but rather the heart. God is perceived by the heart - not by the reason. This is, says Pascal, what faith is.

Many scientists are atheists because they, for whatever reason, have not had the eyes of their hearts opened. Their minds overwhelm their hearts. A brilliant scientist with an incredible mind - a genius, as it were - Pascal understood that God is perceived only by the heart. The heart is central to seeing God and understanding the power and beauty of His everlasting love.

In his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul said:

"... no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him," but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searchers all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment: "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 2:9-16)

Pascal suffered from ill-health throughout his life. He died on August 19, 1662, shortly after his 39th birthday. I write this blog on the eve of the month and day of Pascal's passing. I can't think of a better way to remember this brilliant man than to marvel at his encounter with the Lord and how profoundly it changed his life.

For all of his historic scientific accomplishments, what was greatest about Pascal was his heart. He had the heart of Jesus. Pascal was blessed. He is a kindred spirit.

May your heart be one with the Father and Son.

Agape,

Steve

The Power of the Heart

My good friend Andrea Maloney Schara sent me a fascinating email recently that I thought I would share with you today (with Andrea's permission, of course). For more on Andrea, please see the postscript below.

As you will see from the information below, there is some very interesting scientific research going on today demonstrating the importance of the heart and love in our daily lives. The question I keep asking is when will scientists discover what our surrendered hearts already know -- that the heart is central and love is the gateway to God? It looks like some scientists, including Dr. Rein, are on the right track. Read on and see what you think.

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THE POWER OF THE HEART
(from the research web site of Dr. Glen Rein)

Dr. Glen Rein is probably the most knowledgeable scientist in his field and it is worth knowing about this latest research. Dr. Rein believes that the ancient wisdom is correct. The heart and not the brain is the seat of emotions and health. It is the entry point of the soul within the body. Using fast Fournier transformation (FFT) he converted a conventional EKG of the heart into a frequency diagram, something no one ever thought of before. Lot's of mapping of brain frequencies have taken place but the heart, he points out, is much more powerfully electrical than the brain. Heart activity must be screened out when doing an EEG on the brain. What he found is as significant as it is amazing.

Negative emotions such as frustration, unhappiness, anger, hatred, jealousy and the like generate chaotic, weak, high frequency heartwave graphs. Positive emotions, on the other hand, such as love, appreciation and gratitude generate very orderly, low frequency, but very powerful waves on the graph. The significance of this is much more than a scientific curiosity as we shall see.

A model of the electromagnetic field of the heart shows a perfect, fractal, toroidal (donut) shape. According to Dr. Rein such a shape is a subtle energy transducer, i.e. it converts one form of energy to another, because it generates an infinite number of harmonics allowing a step down or demodulation of higher energies such as we have been calling tachyon energy. Energy travels through harmonics with no loss of power. Think of it as a staircase for energies from the beyond.

Only when the heart is coherent, as in feelings of love and connectedness, can the energy come through in force. Resonance and coherence in an orderly system are the apparent keys to tapping the tachyon field. (And maybe this is why lovers always seem so healthy despite all that tachyon discharge.) This is apparently what Dr. Badgley discovered when he found that different substances affected the pulse (a measure of the heartbeat) whenever they entered the life field.

Dr. Rein decided to prove it by conducting experiments in which healers were able to change the absorption spectrum of DNA by either winding the coil tighter or unwinding it according to their intention. This was even done from a mile away when the spectrograph operator had no idea when the experiment was taking place. Most importantly, the ability to achieve this feat only took place when the healers changed their heart frequencies to a highly coherent state, in other words, when they were loving.

[This research] may also explain the fact that Holy men throughout history have stressed love as a path to God. Only in loving states does God's energy become available to mortals to work divine magic upon them.

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Pretty interesting research, eh? I thought the last line was the most interesting of all. Dr. Rein's works suggests that only in loving states does God's energy become available to work is us.

As followers of Christ know, everything of God revolves around love and the heart.

May you live a life of love.

Agape,

Steve

Postscript: Andrea is a kindred spirit and a world class researcher in her field. For decades, she has sought to understand the dynamics of families and how they shape individuals. Her work has been influenced and shaped by Dr. Murray Bowen. Dr. Bowen is famous for having been the first psychiatrist to hospitalize entire families at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He was also the first psychiatrist to write about how he saw and participated differently in the emotional functioning in his family.

You can learn more about Andrea and her work at her website: http://ideastoaction.wordpress.com/

Christ vs. Christians

As regular readers of my blog know, I make a point of distinguishing Christ from Christians. Christ is spiritual and has an incredible loving heart. Sadly, many Christians are religious and have hearts filled with anger and hate. I recently came across a wonderful quote from Mahatma Gandhi that succinctly summarizes what I've been trying to say:

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

- Mahatma Gandhi

That, in a simple sentence, says it all.

May Christ reign supreme in your heart and may His light shine through you.

Agape,

Steve

When Angels Cry

It is with a heavy heart that I bring to your attention a song that Christine was asked to sing and record recently. The song is titled "When Angels Cry." It was written by Dan Sweetman, a CT-based artist. "When Angels Cry" was inspired by the tragic events that took place in Cheshire, Connecticut on July 23, 2007, which took the lives of a mother and her two daughters (see story below).

You can listen to the song at this link:

http://www.wordscometolife.com/events/angels/

Our hearts go out to all those who have been affected by the loss of lives and this tragedy. As Dan says in his heartfelt song:

"Remember their faces, remember their love. We've got to believe they're looking down from up above."

Agape,

Steve

Neighbors Say Connecticut Family Was Targeted By Home Invaders
Friday, July 27, 2007

CHESHIRE, Conn.

Two men accused of killing a physician's wife and two daughters and setting fire to their house in this upscale town are suspected in two other burglaries the night before, said homeowners who spoke with police.

Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes, both on parole for nonviolent crimes, could face the death penalty if convicted in the slayings early Monday of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and the girls.

Authorities say the men broke into the home of Dr. William Petit Jr. and held the family hostage for several hours. One of them forced Hawke-Petit to make a withdrawal at a bank later that morning, triggering suspicion among bank employees, police said. Police rushed to the house, found it on fire and encountered the suspects fleeing. The two were arrested after crashing the Petits' car into police cruisers.

Ronald Bergamo Jr., who lives several miles from the Petits, said a police officer told him the suspects burglarized his home early Sunday as he slept along with his wife, 12-year-old son and another couple. The burglars, apparently entering through an unlocked door, took cash and left a large carving knife on a table in the family room.

"We were within 24 hours of being that family," a shaken Bergamo said of the Petits. "We aren't the quaint town any more."

David Hick, who lives on Bergamo's street, was also asleep with his family when his home was broken into early Sunday. Hick said the burglars stole a photo of him and his wife, along with cash, credit cards and a cell phone.

Taking the photo left them wondering if the robbers planned to target them.

"That's one thing that is really bothering us," Hick said Thursday. "What happened to them could have happened to us just as easily."

Komisarjevsky and Hayes were charged with six capital felony counts in the deaths of Hawke-Petit and her daughters Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11. The men also were charged with assault, sexual assault, kidnapping, robbery and arson.

They have not been charged in the break-ins at the other homes.

"We're not leaving any stone unturned," police Lt. Jay Markella said, declining to confirm a link between the three break-ins.

Hawke-Petit, 48, a school nurse, was strangled and her daughters died of smoke inhalation, according to the state medical examiner. The mother and younger daughter were sexually assaulted, according to arrest documents.

A private service for the Hawke-Petit and her daughters was held on Friday, and a public memorial was scheduled for Saturday.

Residents are lining up for gun safety classes so they can buy firearms, said Scott Hoffman, owner of Hoffman's Gun Center in nearby Newington.

"You talk to these people and you can see it's hit home, this particular crime," he said. "It's the sheer grotesqueness of the crime and the fact that it's such a normal family."

A police source close to the investigation confirmed reports that Komisarjevsky, 26, and Hayes, 44, spotted Hawke-Petit and one of her daughters at a grocery store Sunday and followed their car home.

Police gave family members the same account, said Glenn Petit, Hawke-Petit's brother-in-law.

"They were attracted to the car," he told The Associated Press, though he was not sure what model Hawke-Petit was driving. "They liked the car, followed her home, thought she lived in a nice house."

William Petit, who remained hospitalized in stable condition, had been beaten and bound in the basement but managed to escape the fire. The bodies of his wife and daughters were found inside.

"He's doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances," Glenn Petit said of his brother. "Emotionally, he's a mess. He is stunned right now. He's had his family taken from him."

Komisarjevsky and Hayes were each being held on $15 million bond. Convicted burglars with lengthy criminal records, they had been roommates at a drug treatment center and halfway house in Hartford last year.

Komisarjevsky is a member of a prominent family in the stage arts.

"It was a monstrous, deranged act, beyond comprehension," his family said in a news release Thursday.

Komisarjevsky lived a few miles from the Petits, but it was not clear if there was any connection between them.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291180,00.html

The Mystery of Love

I was reading a book by T. Austin-Sparks today titled "His Great Love." The opening pages captivated me. Here's a little excerpt from the book that really got me going:

"We shall come to the understanding of God only along the path of the love of God. Everything is revolving upon this pivot of the universe - the heart of God."

In this simple little sentence, Sparks is telling us that everything - not some things or a few things, but everything - in the universe revolves around God's heart. "The heart of the universe," says Sparks, "is this matter of God's love."

How powerful! This is exactly what the Holy Spirit has been telling me over and over again!

Sparks goes on to say that with this key - that is, with the knowledge that God's love is the heart of the universe - we can unlock the whole of the Scriptures. "The Bible," says Sparks, "is one continuous and growing revelation of this central and basic fact, that love is the motive of all things."

The key to unlocking the Bible is the basic fact that love is the motive of all things.

WOW!!!

Do you see the power in this? Can you hear the Apostle Paul - a former religious Pharisee and keeper of the law - telling the Romans: "Love is the fulfillment of the law." (Romans 13:10)?

Love is the motive of all things. Love is the key that unlocks the whole of the Scriptures. The whole Bible revolves around love - God's love, the love of His Son and the love we share.

One word: Love. So simple, and yet oh so powerful and mysterious.

Sparks asks a simple question: "What was the motive of creation, and of man as the very center of the creation?"

The answer? "It was love."

"All the rest of the Bible," says Sparks, "is an unfolding of God's love for us." Sparks writes:

"We were made for the heart of God. It is a mystery. The mystery deepens and grows as we go on; but there is always a mystery about love, even amongst humans. Love is a strange thing. Very often you cannot for the life of you explain why some people love certain other people - why it was that So-and-so fell in love with So-and-so; it defeats every attempt to explain. Well, if that is so in the human realm, the Divine is infinite in its range above the human. To explain in terms of love why God, with all His perfect knowledge, knowing the end from the beginning, set His hand to make us, is not the easiest thing. Indeed, I think we are at the depth of mystery."

We were made for the heart of God. This is a mystery. We will probably never know why. Furthermore, the mystery gets deeper as we go on. That is as it should be. "There is always," says Sparks, "a mystery about love."

Love is a mystery. This also implies that life is a mystery, which is another thing the Holy Spirit has told me frequently over the past several years.

Sparks continues:

"Oh, the mystery of God's love! Will you tell me it is not true that the universe has at its very center a heart that loves? Well, think again and go back to your Old Testament."

Go back to your Old Testament, says Sparks. If you follow Sparks' recommendation, you will see time and time again the incredible power of God's love at work in human hearts. God's heart is pure love. Jesus possesses this heart. If we allow Him to transform our heart, God - through Jesus - will make our lives shine.

The universe has at its very center a heart that loves! That's the key to understanding the Bible. How many Christians truly understand this? How many people realize that at the very center of the universe is a heart that loves - God's awesome heart? How many people comprehend a heart that can overcome anything, anytime, anywhere? A heart that is capable of loving everything in the universe - unconditionally, now and forever. A loving heart that knows no bounds.

Somewhere along the way, Christianity became corrupted by dark hearts. A few hundred years after Jesus walked the earth, man found a way to turn back the spiritual clock. In due time, religious people once again gained power and authority, but this time they did it in the name of the Lord. Religious Christians became killers - in the name of Jesus no less! The heart of Christ - a heart full of God's love - began to vanish from Christianity. Sadly, this trend continues today.

Lest you think I'm getting carried away, open up your Bible and take a close look at Matthew 23. Jesus knew the corrupting nature of religious hearts. He had full knowledge of the darkness that exists inside a religious heart. He knows religious people are incapable of walking in love. Jesus exposed the dark religious hearts of the Pharisees. Matthew 23 is full of harsh words for religious people. One of the most powerful criticisms of religion is contained in Matthew 23:27-28. In the Scripture, the Lord says:

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. (Matthew 23:27-28)

"Whitewashed tombs ... full of dead men's bones and everything unclean." In my humble opinion, that's the best description of a religious heart in the whole the Bible. A heart full of hypocrisy and wickedness. This description fits a lot of Christians I see on TV and hear on the radio today. The religious heart is on display 24/7/365 in your family room in living color. Tragically, these same dark hearts are on display in many churches around the country and throughout the world.

When I look out at the world and look at the hearts of people that call themselves Christians, I don't see many loving hearts. I see religious hearts. I see the same kind of hearts that the Pharisees possessed. They same kind of hearts the Lord exposed that were recorded in the Book of Matthew.

"Dead men's bones and everything unclean."

Ouch!

A heart full of God's love is not a religious heart - it's a spiritual heart. God is Spirit (John 4:24). God is love (1 John 4:8). A religious heart is a dark and dead heart. A heart full of God's love is a heart fully alive! It's the most loving heart you will ever encounter in the universe. It's the kind of heart that "always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres" (1 Corinthians 13:7).

I love the fact that Jesus chose a Pharisee - Saul of Tarsus, a once proud religious killer of Christians - to spread the gospel. How beautiful our Lord is. Poor Saul had no idea what happened to his religious heart. He was blinded. He was stunned. But when he realized what had happened - that he had received the revelation of Jesus and was blessed with the Holy Spirit - everything changed. Over time, his dark, religious heart was transformed to light, love and Life. Can you see the awesome power of God's heart? It can take a dark religious heart like Saul's and transform it into a loving heart.

The heart of God is the greatest heart of all. God sent His Son into the world so that we could, through Him, possess the most loving heart in the universe. Saul of Tarsus had a dark religious heart. The Apostle Paul had a bright spiritual heart full of God's love.

God's heart is a heart that never dies. It can't die. The Pharisees thought they could kill Jesus' heart, but they were sadly mistaken. We are reminded of this fact every year when we celebrate the awesome power of God's love to raise Jesus from the dead.

When everything else perishes, God's loving heart will still be there, right at the center of the universe.

You may ask, what kind of heart does God and His Son have? The Apostle Paul gave us the best description of all. God's heart is patient. It is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast. It is not proud. It is not rude. It is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs. God's heart does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. This is the what Paul told the Corinthians.

Take a look around at all the people that call themselves Christians today and examine their hearts. How many hearts do you know today that are patient, kind, don't envy, aren't jealous or proud, are not rude, not self-seeking, not easily angered, and keep no record of wrong doing?

How many hearts like that do you know? Many people know about Jesus' heart, but they don't have His heart. Their hearts are independent of God's loving heart. God wants us to have the heart of Christ. That's why He allowed Jesus to be crucified. He did this so we could know - once and for all - that nothing - not even religion - could kill His loving heart. His love cannot be killed. It cannot die. The heart of God will always rise from the dead. Always!

The Lord told us that people would know we are His disciples by the kind of hearts we possessed - by our Spiritual fruit. The heart of Christ is a heart full of Spiritual fruit - a heart full of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23).

Sparks says that we were made for the heart of God. This is a great mystery. Love is a mystery.

May we learn to appreciate God's great mystery of love and may we surrender our hearts to the Lord and allow His loving heart to shine through us.

Agape,

Steve

Live to Love

I was reading a book written by Watchman Nee today and came across this passage:

"Our complete surrender of ourselves to the Lord often hinges upon some particular thing, and God waits for that one thing. He must have it, for He must have our all."

Some particular thing... God waits for that one thing. He must have it.

Those words from the passage resonated strongly with me. Though I had been blessed with the Holy Spirit on December 7, 2002 (as I described previously in my blog "I Am Love"), it wasn't until Easter morning 2005 that I had completely surrendered to the Lord. I remember that morning as if it were yesterday.

I was sitting at my kitchen table, drinking some coffee and reading Scripture. My children were in the family room watching T.V. All of the sudden, I heard a voice. The voice said:

"Give me your music"

It was a gentle voice. A loving voice. It was so clear. I looked up from my Bible. I realize the Lord was speaking to me. He was asking me to surrender my true love - my music.

I was momentarily stunned. I began to cry (the Lord's voice always reduces me to tears). The Lord was asking me for something that I hadn't given Him since receiving the Spirit. He was asking me. He wasn't telling me. He was asking me! Gently. Lovingly. He waited patiently for over 2 years for me to give Him my music. I hadn't realized the mistake I had made. I felt so ... embarrassed.

As the tears continued flowing, I told the Lord at once that the music was His. "Yes, Lord," I said, "from this day forward, the music is yours. It is done."

Music was a huge part of my heart. It always has been. Music is in my blood. I have pictures of myself as a little child with a pacifier in my mouth holding a guitar. The Lord knew my passion for music. But He also knew that I had to surrender it to Him.

I thanked the Lord profusely that Easter morning for asking me to surrender the music. I especially thanked Him for the way He asked me for my music - on Easter Sunday (the day signifying His resurrection), in a gentle and loving voice. So gentle. So loving. The Lord is gentle. He is loving. He is Spiritual fruit. (Galatians 5:22-23)

Anybody who has listened to Sweetbird's music since the band's inception will detect a significant change since 2005. The new record "Shine" is His music - not ours. That's not to say that His Spirit didn't grace Sweetbird's previous records, "Free Spirit Reflection" and "Soul Fire." It surely did, but nowhere near as powerfully as it did on "Shine." All of the songs on "Shine" were inspired by the Holy Spirit. Every single one of them!

I don't know how many musicians out there today are recording music inspired by the Holy Spirit. I know there is a genre in the music business called "Christian Music." However, I don't know how much of this music is inspired by the Holy Spirit. You might be surprised to learn that Christine and I don't call our music "Christian." We refer to our music as "Inspirational." Sweetbird's music is inspired by the Holy Spirit. We receive the music from Him. It's a spiritual thing and has nothing to do with religion.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about. Not too long after surrendering my music to the Lord, I wrote a song titled "Live to Love." The song is on "Shine." The opening lines are:

Surrendered to Him
Forgiven of Sin
Bless with His grace
We rise above
And live to love

Those lines were inspired by the Holy Spirit. I wrote the entire song in about five minutes. The words just poured out of my heart. I had no control. They just poured out of my heart, effortlessly. The song captures the essence of walking in love: surrender completely, receive His love in your heart, and then share your loving heart with others (including your enemies). The lyrics to the bridge of "Live to Love" are:

Search me
Transform me
Let Your heart rein supreme

These words describe the process of complete surrender. Let the Lord search your heart, allow Him to transform your heart, and let His heart rein supreme. If you follow this process, you will learn to walk in love and live a life of love. As Paul told the Ephesians:

Dearly beloved, be imitators of God, and live a life of love (Ephesians 5:1-2).

Watchman Nee is absolutely correct about the importance of complete surrender. The Lord doesn't want part of our heart - He wants all of it! Complete surrender is the key to walking in love and living a life of love.

May your heart be completely surrendered to Him.

Agape,

Steve

ps: If you would like a free copy of Sweetbird's new CD, "Shine," send me an email with your mailing address and Christine and I will send you one. Send your name and address to: steve@sweetbirdmusic.com