Throughout my life, I've heard the phrase that "all we have is prayer;" meaning, if you strip away the temporal world of our existence -all its ups and downs, systems and structures of illusions -one begins to see why scripture asks us "not to love the world or the things of the world" because if we do "the love of God is not in us" (1 John 2:15). Yes, I've heard it many times, but it wasn't until my days here on the outskirts...
