1. God is a person who chooses relationship (with us).

  2. God is holy.

  3. God is wholly good.

  4. God’s reality includes everything in the material world, and everything else too.

  5. God loves me because I am God’s treasured child and creation.

  6. God wants to spend time with me.

  7. God is not waiting to chastise and punish me but to guide me and delight in me.

 

8. Jesus is the spitting image of God. What I see in Jesus is true of his father.

9. I can enjoy the intimate relationship with God that Jesus enjoyed, right now, as Jesus did.

10. I can learn to enjoy an intimate relationship with God by following Jesus’ example and learning from him.

11. I have a kingdom. So does every other person, including God.

12. God’s kingdom is the part of God’s reality that God chooses to influence or affect.

13. Living in God’s kingdom necessarily involves other people. It’s not just me and God.

14. Kingdoms conflict. That is the nature of living with others.

15. Aligning my kingdom with God’s kingdom is life-giving.

16. I am enough, and so is everyone else.

17. I have enough, and it’s all God’s.