>> The only reason that I came back to God was due to my divorce. That event in my life caused me to question many things. The biggest upheaval was that it dragged me kicking and screaming out of a state of being comfortably numb. I was cruising in a spiritual sense. The more that my marriage continued, and the more that my wife and I became increasingly successful as the result of our secular team, then the more that I became of this world. >> I look back on the immediate days after my wife left me and the emotional state that I was in, and I can now observe a man who was being dragged kicking and screaming into the spiritual world very much against his will. It was only a couple of years ago but now it is as if I am looking at a different man entirely. Back then I would have given just about anything for things to have returned to what they once were. Today, there is nothing that I could be given to return to that former iteration of myself. >> Francis Berger has written another interesting article which draws upon work by Dr Bruce Charlton and expands upon it. The topic is the difference between the spiritual and the physical world, how the global system attempts to trap us within the physical system, and how we can avoid the traps of the physical system while retaining our spiritual freedom. In other words, we need physical bread to physically nourish us; there is no avoiding that. But if our focus becomes entirely the physical bread, then when we physically die we will discover that we are spiritually dead as well.