God gives us three gifts, as we come into this world. Three gifts to help us journey from our origin, through the dangerous dark cold universe, towards our end.
The first gift is a blanket called love. You can wrap this blanket around yourself, to keep you warm.
The second gift is a staff called hope. You can lean on it, you pull yourself up out of lethargy with it, and it helps you to move forward.
The third gift is a tiny flame called faith. You hold it in the palm of our hand, and it needs to be tended to and to be nurtured. Its light will show you the way through the darkness.
The most important message of scripture is that these gifts are not meant just for you, they are meant to be shared.
Wrap your blanket around others, and it more than adds the warmth of the other to yours. If you only wrap it around yourself, the cold will creep up through its folds.
Extend the staff to others, to pull them up. It is more than twice as hard to break two joined sticks than one. But, if you hold the staff close to your chest it will be useless.
Share your flame and light the extinguished candle in the hand of another, and the path will be illuminated more than twice as brightly. If you would close your hand in an attempt to keep the flame for yourself, it will be extinguished.
This, to me, is what our Amarr scripture tries to tell us. It is what I try to live up to.
