Thoughts of a Servant

Man, that was such a relief.  I had sat down at lunch and just started reading my Bible.  I continued my bible-in-hear plan with Joshua 1, and I couldn’t tell you how hard it hit me.  God knew I needed this word, and he spoke it directly to me.

I have been dealing with this warfare on whether it is my own ambition wanting to go to Tanzania or if it was actually my calling.  I now know that its, in fact, my calling.  Check it:

Joshua 1 talks about Joshua assuming authority after Moses dies.  He is bringing the people into the land of Canaan. He keeps repeating and repeating these simple words:

Be strong and courageous (v6)
Be strong and very courageous (v7)
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. (v9)

and ends with:

Only be strong and courageous! (v18)

Clearly he sees Joshua trembling with the fear of if he is capable, if he is worthy, if he can drop everything and lead these people. This is exactly where I am in my questions about Tanzania. And God just keeps pounding this message into him saying he needs to be strong and courageous and not to be scared because the Lord will be with him:

Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.

Jos 1:9.

It also says that God will not be pleased with partial obedience (only us talking about it):

Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; …

Jos 1:8a

And then explicitly ties success with our obedience in the second part of that verse:

… meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it.  Then you will be prosperous and successful.

Jos 1:8b

That calmed another fear that I have about success.  I have been brainwashed with the world’s idea of success– and that sometimes influences my decisions to do God’s work.  But looking at this passage it is very clear that success (not of this world) is given as a gift of obedience and having that special relationship.

When God’s people unite around the core duty of obedience, they can rest assured that God will bless them in wonderful ways.

Roger Ellsworth, Opening Up Joshua (Leominster: Day One Publications, 2008). 36.

I already feel the pressure. Questions flying around in my head although the actual move is far off in the distance.

• What am I thinking?  I have a great life and can help many people right from my computer.
• Why would I want to give everything up?
• After a fun night of salsa with friends and intense dancing: Why would I want to leave this?  So much dancing and fun girls.
• After coming home, relaxing, playing some games: Why can’t I just stay here?
• After going out to eat at some steakhouse or cafe: Why don’t I just stay here.  Live music, dancing, food, what can be better?

All of these questions are components of spiritual warfare.  I know in my heart that the change would be far greater if I were to spend time with these people.  I can’t see the logic, but I know that there is a truth.  These girls need a father and a man who can show them that there are good men in this world.  Those boys need someone to foster their boyhood and be a strong foundation for their family structure.  They need the love of a father.

I keep asking those questions above because I am scared– scared of the risk.   I am also scared that if it doesn’t work out I would have completely crushed the opportunities that I have going right now.  My job requires me to be on the leading edge of technology at all times– with it changing every day, every hour, every second.. I couldn’t possibly keep up if I were to leave for a year, let alone several years.  But would it be worth it?

You tell me.

You go to serve these kids, these adults– You show them Love unlike any they have ever seen because it is of Christ.  They then have a reason to live, a reason to fight, a purpose for their life, and a will to change other lives.  They will have safety, family, community.  I would sacrifice my everything that one individual might have a purpose in life and come to know this Love that I know. Let me clarify, its nothing that I can do that would transform lives– but I am completely open to God working in and through me.  That being said, I know that his Love can transform anything.

I am already encountering so many hard questions on my own life– on my decisions…  The only way I can get rid of them is for me to make them public and to talk about them.  If I keep them inside, my mind will convince myself to back off into my comfort zone.

We need to be aware of these questions, while they may be legit at times, other times they are a source of fear and temptation.   Often they keep your motives in check, but even more often they can be a deceiving catalyst of suppression.

But all in all, I will need your prayer and support, because its not a random instance that you are reading this blog, it is because I need you to challenge me and to challenge yourself on what kind of love this really is.

What kind of love.

As I mentioned in my previous blog post, sometimes I get caught up in facts, history, visual / mental / spiritual definitions and presence within their cultural context, etc.  But I have been taking time to just sit and listen, watch and learn.  Let me say, you may think God isn’t present now, but just sit and watch…  I was eating dinner at the mall today and I saw several things that just blew my mind.  So I got to thinking about our surroundings and our influence on each other…  The best way to get evidence that God is present, isolate yourself from us.

But in all honesty, you have to look around you– if you want evidence of God, go into the wilderness.   In the wilderness, let me ask, what is evil?  What will distract you?  The only answer to that is yourself, your mind, your presence.  You are the only presence of distraction in the midst of amazing evidence of God’s existence.  This means two things: (1) You are not good, you have fallen and cannot seem to think good thoughts and your mind wanders, and (2) You are the most complex living creature on the face of this planet, you are Christ’s masterpiece.  It makes it much more simple if you take the factors of the world out and just look at nature and yourself.  Man was created to rule over the earth (Genesis), and Man was also the pinnacle of creation.  But that fall explains why we can’t go into the wilderness without thinking of power, survival, etc.

Going back to the context of the wilderness comes the concept of faith.  Faith seems to dwell in our minds as a source of foundation.  Faith actually stems from the Hebrew word emunah which means “firmness,” “steadfastness,” “fidelity,” and  ”faithfulness.”  It is also derived from the word aman which means “confirm,” and “trust.”  Some of us choose to blindly follow it and others need scientific proof for faith to be concrete.  Of course, there are different types of faith:  You have faith that your eyes are telling your brain exactly what you are seeing– you have faith that each time you go under a freeway overpass, that it will not collapse on you– you also have faith that when you sleep you will wake up knowing exactly what you knew the night before rather than having to relearn everything.

Atheists have plenty-a-beef with Christianity because there is basically no written hard evidence.  They will say that Christianity is good thinking (faith)– in a sense.  And the Atheists that I have talked to come across as rational and informative individuals who have, basically, convinced themselves that they cannot prove any existence. In the conversations that I have had, they bring up inconsistencies with the Bible and factual misinterpretations of historical events– all based around “evidence.”   And I can completely understand it, Christianity does require a whole lot of faith.  And most of them do not want to believe in faith because it is not rational or it deems contradictory.

But lets look at faith..  Faith is obviously a very prominent part of the Bible:

 

By faith Enoch was taken up so he should not see death (Heb. 11:5); by faith Noah built an ark (Heb. 11:7); by faith Abraham obeyed when he was called (Heb. 11:8); by faith Abraham lived as an alien in the land (Heb. 11:9); by faith Sarah received power to conceive (Heb. 11:11); these all died in faith (Heb. 11:13); by faith Abraham offered up Isaac (Heb. 11:17); by faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau (Heb. 11:20); by faith Jacob blessed Joseph’s sons (Heb. 11:21); by faith Joseph made mention of the exodus (Heb. 11:22); by faith Moses was hidden (Heb. 11:23); by faith Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter (Heb. 11:24); by faith Moses left Egypt (Heb. 11:27); by faith Moses kept the Passover (Heb. 11:28); by faith they passed through the Red Sea (Heb. 11:29); by faith the walls of Jericho fell down (Heb. 11:30); by faith Rahab did not perish with the disobedient (Heb. 11:31); by faith they conquered kingdoms (Heb. 11:33).

Colin A. Day, Collins Thesaurus of the Bible (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009).

 

But one of the key things that struck me is that Faith is a key structural component in this relationship (between God and man) in the Old Testament.  God had created the bronze snake to remind people that they needed to have faith… It is also mentioned several times in the passages above…  God was with his people, and they had to believe in him.

 

The author of Hebrews defines faith as the assurance in our heart and mind of what we hope for, the certainty of what we do not see (Heb. 11:1). And the author also notes that it was “faith” that was the “basis” for the approval of the saints in the Old Testament (Heb. 11:2). The author of Hebrews was right, for without faith it is impossible to be approved by God.

Eugene E. Carpenter and Philip W. Comfort, Holman Treasury of Key Bible Words: 200 Greek and 200 Hebrew Words Defined and Explained (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2000). 56.

 

Its interesting.  Because God said that He created us in his image…  The Bible talks about God’s faithfulness to his people, which means that, being in his image, he would expect us to be faithful to Him.

 

We do not respond to the grace of God with perfect faithfulness. The grace that gives us faith also allows us from time to time to see how weak our faith can be. So our faith is never of an even quality. It is subject to degrees. When our faith is great, we must praise God. When it is weak, we must not despair (weak faith is still faith), but cry to God for greater grace.

Roger Ellsworth, Opening Up Joshua (Leominster: Day One Publications, 2008). 103.

 

I have been completely absent from Reno (my hometown) since 2007, making it almost 3 years since I have been there.  I was looking through some pictures of Reno from some friends on Facebook, and I have to say– it is gorgeous, it is fun, active, and plenty of outdoor opportunities in which I am in love with.  Lots of friends still live there, lots of church family there, but honestly– I don’t think I miss Reno.  For me, Reno was a safe zone– it was where I felt secluded from the world.  I didn’t fear anything, I felt like a big fish.  I felt like I could succeed there.

I don’t really know where I am going with this, it is just something that is evolving in my mind.  Say someone goes abroad to a nation where they don’t know the language…  They don’t have friends.. They don’t have a community / history with the people there.  They look back home and they see comfort, friends, etc.  They look forward to where they are now, and they see a big cultural, mental and maybe even physical battle ahead of them.  It looks like things are going to change, and they have to start their life from scratch.

I can’t help but think about losing myself.  In order to find your purpose and your value, you have to lose yourself.  I know it sounds crazy, but once you get your pride, your possessions, your image out of the way, you will see that you are worth nothing more than the ground you walk on and that you are in need of a Savior.

Russell brought up a point about fasting that should be emphasized.  Fasting from something clears your mind and allows you to see where your heart’s desire is.  Say you fast from food, you begin to see how much of a security it is, and how much you depend on it, and that you might actually be worshiping it.

Well I consider my move from Reno a form fasting.  Since I have been there I have grown to an unbelievable position in my faith after being severely tested, and still have unfathomable lengths to go (along with much tribulation).  But being outside of that position where I felt like I could succeed and into a position where I was the least of many in Los Angeles,  being outside of my zone of similar interests and language and into a melting pot of fascinating multi-cultural exposure, has better equipped me for whatever God has me doing next.

Throughout the Bible we see stories of people having to start over.  Each of the disciples had to drop their families, careers, and community ties upon following Jesus.  Paul had a major restart in life from being a persecutor of Christians to being a beloved follower of Christ.  Noah obviously had the whole world die around him and he had to start over with just his family and a couple of animals.  If you were in any of those situations wouldn’t you think the future is going to be difficult?  But isn’t it so worth it.

Each time we are put out of our comfort zone, or put into a position of fasting, we should act like the dog and the ball.

What kind of love.

So I got really bored on the way back from LA.  Riding a bike can be really fun, but on long distances– you see the same thing over and over again– you try speeding up, slowing down, still, the same cars… like the Flintstones scenery.

So naturally, I start thinking about tough questions to ask myself and whatnot.  I came across this analogy:

I found myself trying to drive directly on a line / groove in the road for as long as I could.  Sometimes this line would trick me and I would have to shift my lane position to accommodate the change– sometimes the road would curve and I would be thrown off the trajectory of the line, and sometimes the line would disappear for a bit and I would be left completely oblivious as to where the line would return.

But the one thing I noticed is that I was looking at the wrong part of the line… I was only looking fractions of a second ahead to see where the line would be–  But in fact, I should be looking far into the distance.  If I had been looking at the destination of the line, I would see the line change along with the surroundings and abrupt changes… Even when the line disappears, I wouldn’t lose the direction of the line since I am looking past the broken part.

So applying this to my faith, sometimes I tend to get caught up with the facts, knowledge, learning, etc.  I love to live in the moment but sometimes I follow this moment too closely.  Don’t get me wrong, its important to know where you are at the moment, but we need to have our focus on the eternal offering.  Keeping your eyes looking far ahead at God will make sure that even when life gets tough and the direction is unclear (when the line disappears), you will still know where you are going.  Even when your mission changes abruptly with a job switch, death, or even a relocation, that you will be able to counter that change and still know where you are going.

While staying on the road analogy…

13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easyd that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. 14 For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

The Holy Bible : New Revised Standard Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1989). Mt 7:13–14.

Consider how many lanes I could have been riding on, how many freeways I could have been on, how many exits I could have taken, but only one way would bring me home.   The road that will bring you home (Heaven) is narrow, and few will find it, but the options to do otherwise (Destruction) are copious in amounts…

This line analogy reminds me of the story of Jesus on the ocean–  The disciples were on the boat with Jesus (Mark 4).  They woke Jesus from his sleep while at see (during a storm).  They were frightened,  ”Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?” (Mk 4:38).

Let me pause there, the disciples asked Jesus if He cared…  What a loss of faith?!  But I can definitely relate to it.  I often wonder if Jesus cares, but then he displays his love and immediately I am like the disciples, “They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!”  Mk 4:41.

In Matthew 14, when Jesus was walking on water, He asked Peter to come to him.  Peter left the boat just fine, he was looking at Jesus and walking on water! But then he started looking around him and got frightened!  Jesus immediately reach out and grabbed him.  Now this is exactly the analogy of the bike on the road following the line– If I had lost focus on the destination of the line, I would have been all over the road trying to find the line.  We lose that focus, but we have to remember that the line is going to disappear, but if we affix our eyes on the destination, then we will not lose direction.

What kind of love is that?!

Russell sent a pretty cool question today.  Here it is: If God sent his son to bridge the gap with us and bring us back to Him, why did he wait so many thousands of years to do so?

I think its hard to put a concrete definition to this question as there are no real definitive facts, but there are  plenty of implications that come about at first thought of it: God has no sense of time, so essentially it would be as though these billion years were a fraction of a second in Heaven.

But looking at it further… I think he has been saving us from the very beginning.  Adam and Eve fell, and immediately he Loved them and perused them (us).  I would assume there is almost a longing to dwell amongst us while still giving us the option of faith.  So in reality, he has been with us, but until 2000 years ago, he had the perfect timing: bloodline, believers, anti-believers, etc. was just right so that He could bring us back permanently.

Going back to thinking about the CHE (Community Health Evangelism) program, its not always put in the place where the greatest need is–  it is put into a place where the greatest change would be.  So God, timing wise, came not immediately after Adam and Eve fell, but when the Greatest impact would occur.

Now going back to the beginning, this is where I don’t know why it had the greatest impact, but I rest assured that God has a purposeful heart and there was a perfect reason for doing so

Thx dude Russell.

I did some research on the Qur’an on Sunday because it just fascinated me.  I have had some great conversations with some of my friends that study Islam and its super crazy how similar they are to Christianity.  They have the same stories, Adam Eve, Abraham, Jesus, Crucifixion, etc.

Just a few things that stood out in these stories:

1. In Adam and Eve (Surah 20:120), eve was only introduced as Adam’s wife.  Adam was in fact the one who was seduced, fell, and Allah decided to give him grace.  Eve isn’t mentioned outside of that context, and I am interested to see if that is in fact a cultural effect on the holy writing? Or vice versa.

2. I am trying to find some information on what they refer to as the “People of the Book”… They refer to it in several places in the Qur’an and I don’t know what it means, maybe Book of Life? Maybe the Qur’an itself? Maybe a different one?

3. This is still vague to me, but the Qur’an states that Jesus wasn’t crucified, and he didn’t die.  That he might still be in human form and will reveal himself once again.

4. Surah 3:67. Abraham was not a Jew / nor yet a Christian; / but he was true in Faith, / and bowed (Which is Islam), / and he joined not gods with Allah. (Cf 2:135)

This is something that I admire, they have a full sense of “True Faith” rather than the half sense of “acquiring religion” as their faith.  They are fully devoted as that is their definition of faith.

5. One thing that caught me off guard was the commentator’s note stating that it is believed Christians invented / adopted the structure of Trinity from paganism… I am curious as to where he got that idea, and its worth looking into.

In the end, its really interesting to see the level of similarities in beliefs of Allah and God.  Sure there are the obvious differences, but looking deeper you can see the cultural effects on boundaries and motives between Christian and Islam.

The perspective of Allah, I believe, is more of an impersonal God who punishes, but also gives grace–not necessarily out of love? but more because he can?

I download this I Phone application today, but let me first say that Spiritual Warfare has definitely reached a new level.  We are creating technology that advances the spread and accessibility of the gospel, but it is also rapidly increasing the accessibility of lust, temptation and persuasive arguments against Christianity.

This application is a base application for arguments to be used against Christians.  Its a scary app, because if you are not prepared, these arguments can be very daunting and legitimately realistic.  I will look to tackle them not for the blog’s sake, but that I would have prepared an answer in advance should someone need to ask me tough questions.

One of the questions that basically revolved around the disproof of God’s existence:  Since God is omnipotent, he should be able to create a boulder that He would not be able to move– But if he could create something that he cannot move, then he is not omnipotent because he wouldn’t be able to move it.

I was puzzled by this riddle for a while, but I came to a conclusion after much thinking…

Observing that riddle is truth if you look at it as one entity.  But splitting it into separate entities we can make some sense: (1) Can God create a boulder that he cannot move? and (2) then he wouldn’t be omnipotent cause he can’t move it.

First, let me setup the story of the fall.  Compare ourselves, fallen man, as the boulder.  God is still God in this story.  When we fell from Heaven, we were something that God could not touch, could not see, because we were of Evil and God despises Evil.  But God then made a connection through Jesus that would indeed bring us back to him.  In this case, regardless of the impossible gap between Evil and God (us and God), he established a bridge.

Now going back to the riddle, I believe that God could indeed create a boulder that he would not be able to move (as the first part of the riddle)– This would be exactly as we fell from Him and became sinful–  And then he would be able to create the power, or establish the power, to move that boulder, as he created the bridge from man to Heaven.

So in my mind, I think he can do both.  He could indeed create a boulder that would be impossible for Him to move, and then he would be able to establish that power to move it.

Had a good conversation with my roommates about this subject– but it definitely got me thinking.  I heard a pastor start talking about how God is Jealous and he wants us to worship him.  I knew I had this fear, but I couldn’t define it– Consider if someone was jealous on this earth and they wanted us to praise them, we would consider it arrogant and self-praising. . . But for some undefinable reason it is okay for God to say that?  I had to research this, because I know that my perception of the world jealous was skewed and it is really in the realm of zeal that he longs for us.

Russell brought up a good concept, he mentioned the word recognition in his blog–  This is what we all strive for.  Everything in our life was us in our pursuit for greatness, from the garden of Eden, to Babylonia, to Rome, to America.  To us playing sports, to anything that we do.  But why do we seek this greatness?  Because we feel that forgiveness isn’t enough.  We feel as though we have to earn our spot in Heaven.  But when God tells us that his greatness is unparalleled, and that we should praise him, it is because he is pious.  Let me explain a little further…

I was reading Deuteronomy32 today, and my prayers / questions were surely answered.  I saw this verse that completely worded my question:

16 They made him jealous with their foreign gods

and angered him with their detestable idols.

The Holy Bible : New International Version, electronic ed. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996). Dt 32:16.

Where God sees us praising false gods and He becomes jealous.  But not soon after that verse he answered:

The LORD will judge his people 
and have compassion on his servants 
when he sees their strength is gone
and no one is left, slave or free. 
37 He will say: “Now where are their gods, 
the rock they took refuge in, 
38 the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices 
and drank the wine of their drink offerings? 
Let them rise up to help you! 
Let them give you shelter!

39 “See now that I myself am He!
There is no god besides me.
I put to death and I bring to life,
I have wounded and I will heal,
and no one can deliver out of my hand.
40 I lift my hand to heaven and declare:
As surely as I live forever,
41 when I sharpen my flashing sword
and my hand grasps it in judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and repay those who hate me.
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
while my sword devours flesh:
the blood of the slain and the captives,
the heads of the enemy leaders.”

43 Rejoice, O nations, with his people,f, g
for he will avenge the blood of his servants;
he will take vengeance on his enemies
and make atonement for his land and people.

The Holy Bible : New International Version, electronic ed. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996). Dt 32:36–43.

He makes it clear that we cannot even fathom the Glory he obtains, along the same reason we cannot see Jesus’ face.  And in actuality, if someone here were to give themselves praise, it would have been out of sinful nature as they want acknowledgement to counter their transgressions… But God has no transgressions– only glory.

Jealousy actually stems to different contexts, and in the bible it is more about striving & deep longing than it is to take advantage of:

And even more importantly, the jealousy God has here is more of zeal:

If we were to look at the jealousness of God, it is actually a Jealousy from an individual that has no rival claim to deity and sovereignty.  He alone is God, all else is His creation.

To worship the creature, rather than the Creator, is to rob God of His uniqueness and incomparability (vv. Deut 35, 39; Ac 17:22–28; Rm 1:25). The Hebrew word translated “jealous” (qannaʾ) also means “zealous.” God’s jealousy is an expression of His intense love and care for His people and His demand that they honor His unique and incomparable nature.

Ted Cabal, Chad Owen Brand, E. Ray Clendenen, Paul Copan, J.P. Moreland and Doug Powell, The Apologetics Study Bible: Real Questions, Straight Answers, Stronger Faith (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2007). 273.

 

In the end, we have to remember that our God is in pursuit of us.  He is not waiting for us to come to Him– he is in zealous pursuit for his lost sheep, and should we turn our lives He will celebrate! God doesn’t want to share our devotion (Deuteronomy 4:24).

I took a little mental trip to the Soviet today.  I am currently fascinated with foreign cultures and how they perceive certain events and topics.  So I spent some time observing Russia’s prominent religion: Православие, or Orthodox (announced: Pravoslavije).

I was surprised to see how much pride they take in their church.  Both believers and non-believers hold the church as a symbol for their heritage and development of their country.  Inside of this church you will find several denominations such as Roman Catholics, Armenian Gregorian and various Protestant.

Doing some research on the religions, I found that Christianity is not even a percentage of their population, 70% is orthodox and the others are very minimal ( <6%).  Jehovah’s witnesses appear to be more prominent than Christians.

There was actually an anti-religion movement from 1917 to 1928 where they followed Marxist beliefs and were radical against believers.

The tenth CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) congress met in 1921 and it passed a resolution calling for ‘widescale organization, leadership, and cooperation in the task of anti-religious agitation and propaganda among the broad masses of the workers, using the mass media, films, books, lectures, and other devices.

David E. Powell, Antireligious Propaganda in the Soviet Union: A Study of Mass Persuasion (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1975) p. 34;

The supression of religion was so great, they even had concentration caps strictly for believers.  They executed 95k individuals including clergy and bishops, etc within an individual camp by  a firing squad.

In the period between 1927 and 1940, the number of Orthodox Churches in the Russian Republic fell from 29,584 to less than 500.

…

There was a massive closure of churches (reducing the number from 22,000 to 7,000 by 1965

…

[and so many more]

BUT in all of this repression, there is so much hope!

Riga priest Nikolai Trubetskoi (1907-1978) lived under the Nazi occupation of Latvia, and when the Germans retreated out of Latvia in 1944, he escaped out of a German evacuation boat and hid behind to await the Red Army, but he was arrested by the NKVD and sentenced to ten years of hard labour for collaboration with the enemy. This was because under the occupation he had been a zealous pastor and a had done very successful missionary work. In reference to missionary work in the occupied territory near Leningrad he wrote ‘We opened and re-consecrated closed churches, carried out mass baptisms. It’s hard to imagine how, after years of Soviet domination, people hungered after the Word of God. We married and buried people; we had literally no time for sleep. I think that if such a mission were sent today [1978] to the Urals, Siberia or even the Ukrained, we’d see the same result.’

Dimitry V. Pospielovsky. A History of Soviet Atheism in Theory, and Practice, and the Believer, vol 2: Soviet Antireligious Campaigns and Persecutions, St Martin’s Press, New York (1988) pg 92-93

Maybe the time is now.  A reformation started in the 80′s that openly accepted the Catholic Orthodox Church as an icon for their country.  But there are still levels of the bourgeois that will not be able to understand the “mumbo jumbo”.  Something similar to the Martin Luther reformation.  It could be a large movement that will shape these 100 million individuals into knowing a relationship…

What a picture…   What kind of love.