"Therefore when He says that the soul which sins shall die, we understand that to mean that our spirit loses its capacity to seek and embrace God and others and therefore the structures and desires of our soul and heart no longer are enabled. They consequently tend to block. Therefore we die to the ability to relate as we were intended to God, man, nature and ourselves. If sinful structures in the mind and heart, and waning strength of spirit continue, the body is afflicted." - John & Paula Sanford, "Healing the Wounded Spirit"
Wow! We as humans are much more complicated that hearts beating and chemicals pumping through the brain. Scientists continue to wonder what creates the individual and can a person exist outside of their body. Science has proven that depressed people's health will decline, let alone those who do not even value their own life, taking huge risks and maybe even precipitating their own death.
How many of us have been disenchanted with life or others around us, thus becoming bitter or hostile with revenge. Others focus on the career blinding ignoring relationships with families. And others blind their feelings with addictions of any sort. Not only do we lose sensitivity to our surroundings in nature, but we lose a whole other level of sensitivity to other's needs, becoming totally preoccupied with ourselves.
We as humans can actually relate at a higher more valuable level than just working interactions. Most have resigned to lonely lifestyles and don't even want to meet new people. Every interaction with others is ideally a wonderful opportunity to commune in fellowship, which moves our lives to a higher more purposeful reality.
"As one cannot step into the same river twice, so meeting any person is different each time because what emanates from the spirit moment by moment is different. Sensitivity through our spirit is what atually guides conversations in ways and subjects we seem merely to have stumbled into. It is a primary basic function of our spirit to enable us to meet and commune with others and with God." - John and Paula Sandford
