Walking the path

My wife, Jo, is experimenting with a series of paintings, trying to create a feeling without being abstract. She originally had a Pelican in the painting, but it didn’t have the right feeling. So, she changed it to the Pelican-ish bird, which doesn’t actually exist in nature. In her quest to be used by the Lord, she felt she needed to learn to paint with emotion and story.

This begs the question, do feelings have real value? The universe is built on scientific principles. If artificial intelligence (AI) ever takes over the world, feelings will have no value. Feelings exist because God is love, and he decided to make humans in his image. In a world without love, no emotion has value.

It would never create something with free will in an AI-controlled world. Despite all the problems it causes, free will is necessary to have love.

When I first learned about the Lord and all he had done for us, I sometimes wondered, do I have enough faith to go to heaven? Although religion or theology teaches it, I learned through experience that God is love. It hit me one day that I had given myself to the Lord, and because he is love, he can be trusted. Suddenly, everything was simple. It no longer depended on me but relied on him. Feelings do have value, God made it so.