Your thoughts on prayer

Is there a scientific explanation for LOVE ????

I don't think so.

Science doesn't provide half as amny answers as some scientists claim.  Faith doesn't necessarily provide those answers either, in a lot of cases, but that's the road we choose to walk along in search of answers, whether we ultimately find them or not.

 Well, Ruth, wait until your first near-death expereince, and think about things, in my case I've had three real unusual expereinces. The first one was much like the near-death expereinces that are written about, only when I had mine there were no books out there to tell me what it was. Also, I never have heard of anyone else say that coming back, it was real hard to get the mind co-ordinated with the physical action of an thought. I can rember talking to what I perceived as "Jesus" in an white blinding light...he told me that someday I would be with him, but it wasn't my appointed time as yet. On occasion he still comes to me. (BTW..has an wonderful sense of humor)  Like for instance the day I had to take the BBQ skewer out of the back of my boss, whom has slipped and fell in grease on top of it at work.The ambulance driver's remembered me from my past working as the skilled nursing home supervisor, they knew I'd had emergency training..and chose me to help them, ever seen an 50 year old man cry like an baby and begging not to be "touched"...I asked God for help then, and I let this "force" I call creator "energy" flow through my whole body.. through my hand into him. It came "through me" to heal him as they lifted him straight up and I put one hand on his stomach lightly, and pull out the skewer from underneath. I did not think he'd most likely ever walk again and you know, 5 weeks later he came in and "thank me" and all I could say was, I didn't do it..I was just an receiver. That's what I think "God" is...pure energy..with thought..that can manifest at will. I asked the question why do people suffer and I was told that here are lessons to learn through it. for some it's "pay back" time for them, for others its an "understanding"..as I feel by the time we perfect ourselves enough there will never be the need to question the actions of our Lord, we may indeed be as "one" in thought by then, and I was also told that we have free will choices to make in our lives, and how we might be judged someday will depend on those choices. Yet I had once, so far, in my entire life of 60 years an extra-ordinary communication that came of it's own to me. I won't go into this other then I was shown in an instant, as "time stood" still several different faucets for an problem I was trying to decide what to do about, and the ulitmate answer was, don't worry, I'm still here, put it into my hands as I know what is better. What this person needs to understand the lesson..I am, that I am, trust that. Why do people sufffer, sometimes we lay down our lives for others. We are blessed for that. Much of it though is learning lessons in soul growth. I have gotten to understand a bit about the "other side" in ways. Why is "love" the greatest of all things, because it's pure energy and pure energy has "life" in it. It is the only thing that has "life" to it, it is the creator breathing. So aptly seen in Micheangelo's picture of God giving "life" with the touch of his finger to mankind...an soft blowing of his breath. I could perceive no gender in the God I came across, I accept Jesus words that it's his "father who art in heaven" by prayer.  I felt this "energy" actually contained both elements perhaps, but am unsure of even that. Because it is an "energy" it can manifest through others as well as of its own, I think it can manifest as either though. This is the closest I can reveal about my near-death and afterward dealings. I was given "new" understandings then, and since then, I was told that Jesus answers both the polarity of good and bad in all he says in the bible. That there is an element to the world that is much like up/down, yes/no, light/darkness and it takes an "master" teacher to satisfy both elements at the same time, to be in perfect balance. Very few of us decision makers use that kind of logic to our problems. I have many other things I've picked up, but I think this is enough for now. Some of it is extremely hard to tell to other people, there aren't the words in our dictionary yet to fully explain it.

  Closest they might come to it, would be the word spelled backwards..Evol "evolve"...an continuation of life. Wasn't it the Egyptians that felt in the after-life that our hearts are weighed for their content matter..something like that?

In answer to your riddle, "JC" told me that true "evil" doesn't exist any longer, it was over come by "his death" on the cross..and his resurrection. He said that many times what people are calling "evil" these days is merely someone doing something not desired by someone else.  The world has no concept of the word "evil" now. I was always told that Jesus "death" was atonement and the reconcilation of mankind to God...but I've never heard "JC" say it exactly. Perhaps it's fullfilled by beleiveth in Jesus own life and death and resurrection from the grave also?  Maybe someday I'll understand the answer to it all...who knows...possibly..anything is possible.