Website owner: James Miller
I was looking for happiness, peace and truth. I was miserable and didn't know why; I was lost and didn't know the way. What was the right way? Who knew the way? Life was so superficial and empty. Then finally I found the way. And when I found it I suddenly realized my former error. I had been seeking a paradise in southern Florida. And all the while I had actually been in northern Manitoba and was travelling due north. What had the solution been? First, an about-face. Second, a bit of travelling to attain the southern Florida destination. But as I travelled south the weather got warmer and nicer. The about- face was a serious decision to go God's way completely --- forsaking the way of this world and accepting him, his ways, and his word absolutely and completely. And the journey south was ordering my life, habits, affections, and values after his precepts and commandments. As I ordered my life after his word there came happiness, joy, peace and optimism; I found myself naturally friendly and loving others; I found a thousand changes, a thousand joyful changes. I had at last found the right way and knew it. The world, the masses, travel north; you must travel south. Oct 1974
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