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It is 215pm and I have decided to write. I had this question. What does God really want from us? Then I remember that God does not need us, we need God. What I am really wanting to ask is why create us, why life, why test us, why the mystery? Why not? It is human nature to ask questions. No matter how much we know, we will ask questions. We are always looking for reasons. We are always looking. We are always seeking. We are explorers. We could have been anything but God chose for us to be explorers. There is joy in exploring. There is joy in discovery. There is joy in not knowing. What I have arrived at is a reminder. Appreciate the now. Appreciate what is. Appreciate that one day things will make sense but for now we get to live. To live, to learn and to laugh.

I like this quote by Frank Borman that I found, "Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit." If there was nothing to explore we would be static. There would be no movement. There would be no existence. Existence is moving from one thing to the other. I just had a thought. It is impossible to have everything. If you have everything then you do not have want and need. And that is why we do not have all the answers. It is impossible. For every answer there are many more questions. There are more questions than answers. Only God has all the answers and we cannot be God. God cannot create another God. So maybe the mystery is just a necessity. God can give us some things but he cannot give us everything.

We often are told that life is a give and take. You win some and you lose some. We have to take the good with the bad. We have to take the knowing with the not knowing. But does that mean that heaven cannot be perfect? That we gain something but lose something? Maybe that is it. Heaven is everything. Heaven is appreciating everything. No matter where God takes us. Heaven is a journey and not a destination. Heaven has no start and no finish and all of this (life) is part of the journey of heaven. We are and will always be explorers of heaven (EOH). I just looked at the word GOD and noticed that H is the next letter from G and E is the next letter from D. EOH (explorers of heavens) is two steps away from GOD. O is at the center of EOH and GOD and explorers. Keep moving. Keep taking two steps. Keep exploring. Keep walking with God and towards God. Do not wait for heaven to live like it is heaven. We have won when we live in the now.
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