Many souls talk about faith, but fail to live by it. Those same souls talk about loving Me, but do not know the first thing about love. It is a waste of time talking about loving someone you have not seen, when you are incapable of loving those souls you have all around you and who need your love, wisdom and understanding. First learn to love those souls whom I have placed in your immediate surroundings; then you will know what it means to love Me truly. Why grope your way through life when all you have to do is to stride firmly through it in faith and confidence, knowing that I AM with you? Here I AM holding out to you all My good and perfect gifts, but if you will not accept them, you cannot benefit from them. Freely I give them to you; freely you have to accept them, and then use them wisely for the benefit of the whole.