My heart is heavy as I write this article, for I believe life is a gift from God, and every life has value. The earthquake in Turkey and Syria last month has resulted in more than 40,000 lives lost.

The greatest gift God has endowed to humanity may be the rational soul. Baha’i Writings state that the soul can “… discover the reality of things … and penetrate the mysteries of existence.

It means that life is not simply a gift; or, in any event, it is not simply a free gift. It comes at a price that we are obligated to pay. To put it bluntly, if our lives are lent, we are debtors.

For Christians life is a gift from God, and it is from God we come and to God we shall return. It is not for humanity to take that control away from God – to almost want to play at being God?

A gift to each of us. Share it with others, but share it with yourself also. Emily McCreery, parish ministry associate, is pastor of First Presbyterian Church in North Platte.

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God gave us the greatest gift, the gift of free will. The world is not perfect because God has given us the opportunity to choose to engage in a partnership and make the world a better place.

Whether this is a gift from the gods, or a result of natural selection is irrelevant. The fact that I have a mind obliges me to reason, to make sense of the world and to make my life meaningful.

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