J.B. Phillips in "Your God is Too Small" lists 13 destructive views of God. Our early conception of God is founded upon our experience of our parents. If there have been traumatic events, abuse, violence, or emotional absence, then we may view God as either indifferent to us or to be feared. If we were raised in stained-glass churches where worship was conducted in archaic language and old-fashioned music, then our view of God may be similarly colored.

In the Christian church calendar it is the third great Christian festival after Christmas and Easter. The name "Whitsunday" came to be attached to it in Europe because of it being a major occasion for baptisms and confirmations, when the candidates were clothed in white. Churches termed Pentecostal emphasize the baptism of the Spirit as an experience separate from water baptism, and evidenced by speaking in tongues.

Life is a matter of receiving and releasing. We receive what we are given by our parents, teachers and mentors, and we release to our children, and other heirs, what we have acquired. As we age, we have to decide what to do with what we have. We have to plan to distribute our estate. Sometimes we resent having to do so. "I hated all the things I toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool?

All well and good, except that ray of light and drink of pure, divine love revealed something ugly in her. But she did not flinch: