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RESURRECTION is a continuous process in our earthly lives to expand our minds and souls through experience so we become more aware of the presence of God in our lives, and the lives of all God's creation. As RESPECT for other living creations and the SACREDNESS of all LIFE becomes more of a REALITY to us, we are resurrected to a new level of understanding of how man and plants and animals; minerals and the earth are part of man's religious experience here on earth.

In the midst of all this life is GOD, Who is the SACRED, Who created LIFE, and Who continues to be involved in His creation as the FATHER of MAN Whom He created to rule over His other CREATIONS. But the WISDOM to act like GOD and believe in the SACREDNESS of His creations has to come from our RELATIONSHIP with God. He is the only one who can reveal the sacredness of life to our SOUL so that we can be RESURRECTED to an UNDERSTANDING of WHO we are and WHY we were CREATED. RESURRECTION is the MYSTERY of LIFE.

We begin to believe in UNITY as being an integral part of our spiritual GROWTH as we begin to connect with the BEAUTY of God's world. How the plants serve the animals as food, and how animals serve man as food and some as companions in work and play; their presence in man sustaining man, nourishing man unifies them with man and man with them. Vegetables nourish us, becoming resurrected as vitamins and nutrients, restoring depleted nutrients in us, thereby resurrecting us, restoring us. All life is a process of death and resurrection and everything in life serves one another in this process. Everything in life is a piece of a puzzle which fits together for the purpose of unification.