Emotion - the fulcrum of our efforts. I find it effortless to ignore such a powerful thing. How often I live my life without confronting matters with the use of such a tool. There is no mountain that cannot be moved by its presence. It can drive you where you are headed quickly - which isn't always a good thing. Without the use of emotion though, life can be slow and literally stuck. Because of our uncertainty and ill confidence, we go to great lengths to avoid its presence, for it can be ruin a life quickly, but even worse - slowly. Some of us have experienced this first hand.

The kinds of emotion esperienced is not uncontrolled as many assume. Thats insane and corrupt thinking. Its the mind that controls our thoughts, and our mind is in now way connected to our emotions. The circumstances give rise to events which we chose to navigate through - but a murderer for example cannot claim that he could not help it upon a first degree murder. Thoughts give rise to emotions. Then they turn to a feeling. A feeling is exactly that - thought and emotion. It is because of this we feel we have experienced it before because of a trigger. The thought and emotion are attached. It often leads us down a chain of events which we often repeat.

This is not without a sense of irony - we want one thing and mean another. Kind of like the freudian slip. To mean one thing and mean your mother. How often do we trace though the events without considering where the paradox is coming from. We are divided. The flesh is innately selfish and evil. Of course not we say - but I state it to be an endothermic thing. It sucks in energy to fuel itself. The spirit on the other hand, the "oneness" or highest achievement of all existence, gives its energy to the mortal in hopes to regain its efficacy in peace. This is why we are divided. The easiest solution is to serve the flesh, and we will go to great lengths to mask our intention of doing so. Our plot long and arduous till the end of our materialistic lives only to lose it all. We need to let go our lives as Christ has mentioned so we can gain it for the amalgamation of the flesh and spirits will, and gain it back again. Only then will we be free as a human race. Till then, we will pass from moment to moment, step by step in a pursuit of reaching a new limit to our decaying estates.

So what the hell am I saying by all of this? Emotion is the engine of our car. Jesus said once that with faith, one can move mountains. He also said without love, we are nothing more then noise. Emotion should be used constructively with focused intention towards the will of the spirit - not of the flesh, for of the flesh it is simply destructive. Our direction will be scattered until a firm commitment is made to one. We cannot serve two masters, and as James one of Christ's disciples wrote; this man is like a wave of the sea, tossed to and fro.

Use your emotions wisely.