The flow of blood causes more emotional stress
than the other flows. But a virtuous person feels an
internal desire and need to
donate blood for others,
with the Red Cross or Lifestream.

And in a critical time of risk, law enforcement,
national emergency, or military combat, willingness
to be
in harm's way is one of the most important
spiritual qualities, an indication of selflessness and
martyric saintliness.

But when we are
inhibited, the retention of an
anticipated flow of blood is an indication of
internalized
disobedience that points to a contracted
personality afraid for its own safety, prioritizing
self-love and instinctual
self-preservation.

Overcoming
self-love and the shame of cowardice
is one of the more obvious obstacles on our path
toward Everlasting Life.

Our walk with God requires, sooner or later, that
we be willing to be nobly
sacrificed with the
Messiah
in imitation of martyric apostles and Jewish
prophets who gave us the Bible and martyric, Israeli
role-model precedents.

When we observe leaders and candidates for public
office, one of the most important indications of
sincerity is an unihibited personality ready to be
slain for principles, for God and Country. The
deployment of security networks is part of the
modern sociological order.

But proactive individuals are not supposed to require
excessive personal security when
faith in God
Himself
is the causal power that guarantees the
presence of the Spirit and His angels surrounding
us,
preempting any possible attack.

He who loses his life for my sake . . . the same will
find it.
This inverse, losing and finding, reveals the
need to attain to a level of the Spirit's
sanctification
poured into
the person who has been poured out in
the performance of the Will of God.

Emptiness is a spiritual requirement, a personal,
selfless quality attained to by the very few.

Emptiness in the purified servant reveals that
risk-taking
on behalf of others is knowledgeable,
rational, and deeply distracted by an acute and
prayerful love;
servitude that is full of an intelligent
hope.
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