Human beings never operate in a vacuum. Who, where, and what we human beings have been, done, thought and felt in the past somehow gets carried into the present and into the future.

Our genetic heritage,
the family as well as the language and culture that we grow up learning, all influence
what we think we know.
Most often this
"knowing" narrows
our focus thus blinding us
to current reality,
at the physical, emotional, intellectual
as well as spiritual
levels.

Unless we
"turn our minds
and lives totally around",
to unlearn our past,
we see and hear
what our past has
taught us
to see and hear.
We push everything
into the tight patterns and
managable boxes
with which our past has
made us familiar
We see and hear
only what we expect to
see and hear.

The only way we can
turn our minds and lives
totally around
is to become aware
of ourselves and how
we process ...
how we turn
our experiences,
our thoughts,
our feelings,
into "meanings,"
into something that
makes sense to us.

"The Light of Christ"
enables us to see
how much we
need to "turn around."
"The Light of Christ"
then enables us to do what
we need to do
to be born again,
to be born of the Spirit.