Love’s
Gold Train Trough Time
by
Michael
G. Maness
From Would You Lie to Save a
Life?—Love Will Find a Way
In our travels on the gold
train, we found gold nuggets and golden treasures, even a mother lode of gold,
in them-there mountains. Here they are, in chronological order.
Page # of first draft
008–Love will find a way in the darkness, because we can
always Love
021–Introduction. Love’s Golden Treasures
Love—nothing else really matters.
024–Love found a way, as Love is the absolute that drives
us to save life.
028–Love will find a way through the conflict, whether or
not Truth be used, because Love carries Truth.
031–Chapter
1. Love’s Gauntlet–the
USS Pueblo History
“I Love you, Rose,” said Commander
Bucher.
046–Love is tops, because only Love will find a way.
048–Love found a way through hell, that day in 1968, even
without Truth.
048–The only way out, the only relief, and the only
direction that appears to give us confidence—in 1968 or today—is how Love found
a way.
081–Love found a way to avoid murder.
053–Chapter
2. Love and Ethics
Mulched by WWJD Mulches
Love—far more than a choice, reaching to eternity
069–Chapter 3. Love and
Evil Rain–Endure
Love—the only thing evil cannot destroy, even with death
103–Chapter
4. Love’s Unchanging and
Universal Parts
Love—amazes in every religion, race, and
time.
109–Even if we cannot find the absolutely “right” choice,
we have guidance. Love will find a way.
137–Chapter
5. Love Is Absolute
Love—absolute, timeless, unique each
moment of time, even ahead of its time.
144–Adam & Eve died—yet, even so, Love found a way.
146–Love found a way through the Fall.
149–Thielicke indicates that
though we might fail in our duty to God, God is not bound by our duty. God is
ever present with grace and mercy in spite of evil and in spite of our inabilities—all
because of Love. Love will find a way.
157–Chapter
6. Love’s 1st
Foundation—Simplicity
Love—simple, strong, and enduring.
167–Love will find a way … or the feeling was mere pity,
not Love.
168–Love found a way to bridge the Old and New Testaments
168–Love—Love will find a way. Nothing else matters much.
175–Love found a way to value and find relevance in all
the O.T.
176–Love found a way to save the rebel son.
179–Chapter
7. Love’s 2nd
Foundation—“Duty” From God
Love—best served on the plate of freedom.
207–Chapter
8. Love’s 3rd
Foundation—Morality Natural
Love—the sum of virtues and treasure of trust.
207–Love will find a way through our attitude. A positive
attitude is worth millions, and a negative attitude kills—literally. 207
222–Love will find a way with or without Trust.
231–Love will find a way, even through Trust and death.
235–Chapter
9. Love’s 4th Foundation
in Time
Love—the sum of virtues and treasure of
trust.
245–Chapter
10. Love a Human Struggle
with Time
Love—infinite in variety on the concourse
of time.
248–Love found a way through the dark, and saved life
with a lie.
254–Bucher felt his life and the lives of his men were
threatened, and Love found a way through the darkness.
263–Chapter
11. Love, Lying, and Truth
Love—the unifying principle carrying
Truth.
273–Love will find a way to carry Truth, even in heaven.
276–Love will find a way to verify its own Truth, for
Love is often more real than Truth. Said in another way, if you are in Love, no
one needs tell you of the Truth of it.
283–Chapter
12. Love Struggles to Find
a Way
Love—finds a way between legality and
license.
300–We can always Love, and Love will carry Truth
most of the time, just not all the time.
301–Love found a way to a respectable choice. But the
gold standard is that we can always Love.
301–Wonderfully and richly, there is no dilemma in which
we would not choose Love. Love found a way, we can always Love,
and Love will carry Truth most of the time, just not all the time.
305–Chapter
13. Love Masters the
Teleological in Time
Love—left hand on the plow, right hand
Charting a course.
319–Love found a way, even invisibly, through 16
quadrants and 32 continuums of relationships between the teleological and
deontological natures of a choice, while keeping elements of both.
321–Love found a way to seek after itself, as a
own modus operandi, more than to avoid evil.
321–Love found a way, not a perfect way, but a way that
seems to top all there available options for most persons in most of the
religions of the world.
322–Love found a way to be present more than to
explain its presence.
326–No two climbers will ever place their feet in the exact same place as another climber, but Love
will find a way.
326–We can always Love, but the best is yet to come in
Love.
327–Love will find a way up the mountain.
331–Chapter
14. Love’s Uncharted
Islands of Responsibility
Love—the only certainty in an uncertain
world.
334–Love will find a way through complexity, even if we
will never fully understand all of the atomic intractable elements of Love—here
or in heaven.
339–Love will find a way in our life no matter how free
we may be.
343–in our great Love for God and others, our Love will
find a way.
343–Love found a way through our depravity and the forces
of evil.
349–The Truth and matrix of human–spiritual being is that
Love will find a way.
350–Love will find a way, even through the triune
matrix of our being.
357–Love will find a way, even through our inscrutable
minds.
361–Chapter
15. Love Will Find a Way
Love will find a way in the darkness.
367–Love will find a way through the maze of
complexities.
367–we can always Love, and we can always
Love—the sky truly is blue. The great gift of God to humanity is Love,
the heart of two Great Commands—a command, yes, but also a gift and a privilege—the
best of all is that we can always Love.
369–Love found a way to lift up Truth to the point of
self sacrifice.
369–Love will find a way in the good and bad times, for
there is no higher choice than Love.
370–Love found a way because Love is tops, because we
always choose to Love, most of the time with Truth and sometimes over Truth.
But we can always Love.
370–On the battlefield, alone or with another—if there be
true Love—Love will find a way.
371–Love will find a way, with or without Truth, and that
is a mother lode of gold on the concourse of time.
372–Love will find a way home.
375–Love found a way through the simple mathematical
symmetry of the teleology and deontology of a choice. What other mysteries are
there to Love’s symmetry?
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Would You Lie to Save a
Life?—Love Will Find a Way