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Lessons for Life - Living with God, Living with Yourself, Living with your Family, Living with Your Neighbors, Living in Time and Eternity
Lessons for Life Living with God Living with Yourself Living with your Family Living with Your Neighbors Living in Time and Eternity Author:Robert I. Kahn While flying a kite, I once asked my father, "Dad, what holds the kite up? "The sring," he replied. No, Dad, the string holds it down, not up. If you think so, let go of the string, he said, and see what happens. I let go and the kite began to fall! Its seems odd that the very thing which seems to keep the kite down, is actually what keeps ... more »it up. And this is true not only of kites but of life. Those strings that are tied to us, those rules and regulations that seem to hold us down, are actually holding us up! And certainly in the realm of the spirit, in the field of faith the same truth holds with even greatier force. The word "religion" is said to come from a Latin root meaning "to hold back" or "tie back". And this is what religion does. It provides the string to the soaring kite of our spirit; it keeps us from falling. It binds us to great values; it attaches us to great causes; it helps us fly high in the air of God's truth and lifts us until our heads touch the stars and our lives take on the beautiy and the glory of men and women who are bound closely to God.« less