Hi jerry lynch

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All good points, thank you. I got it this way from a friend: "Nothing is more important than the person you are presently with." In whatever capacity we may find ourselves, this is true not only for what we might be able to do for them but also what they might be able to do for us. I was advised to earnestly search for the spirit of what is being said, and that is usually about their state of being and not necessarily about the statement of beliefs. Treat the physical first, then the heart, then the mind. We have no way of knowing exactly what is being asked of us or stated to us without an open ear and mind. Imago dei..."Christ in all his many  disguises": this is who I am with, no matter what I may think or believe.