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I'm sitting beside the Sabbath[br]Trail, which is this really cool trail,

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that starts and ends at the Washington[br]Seventh Day Adventist Church,

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in Washington, New Hampshire.

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Which is the first[br]Seventh Day Adventist church,

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the oldest Seventh Day Adventist church.

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And this is a trail that[br]winds through the woods

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for about a mile, it's got[br]twenty-two separate stops on it,

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each of which has a part in tracing the[br]Sabbath through the Bible, through the ages.

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If you ever get a chance to[br]visit, I highly recommend it.

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For our purposes, this trail [br]is an ideal spot to continue

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our look at the selfishness paradigm.

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We have to wait to see a pure expression of[br]the loving-kindness paradigm, God's paradigm.

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We won't see that until heaven.

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But today, even though Satan[br]has twisted things around severely,

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God, as master designer of[br]the earth, can still be seen.

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The author Ellen White, in[br]the book Desire of Ages,

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talks about how there's[br]both good and evil in the world,

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and we can see God in nature still.

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Where the only thing that is,[br]or can completely be evil,

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is the hearts of those humans[br]who decide to be wholly evil.

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And here is what she says[br]on page twenty of her book.

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She says, "Now sin has[br]marred God's perfect work,

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yet that handwriting remains.

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Even now, all created things[br]declare the glory of His excellence.

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There is nothing, save the selfish[br]heart of man, that lives unto itself.

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No bird that cleaves the air, nor[br]animal that moves upon the ground,

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but ministers to some other life.

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There is no leaf of the forest, or lowly[br]blade of grass but has its ministry.

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Every tree and shrub and leaf[br]pours forth that element of life

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without which neither[br]man nor animal could live.

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And man and animal, in turn, minister to[br]the life of the tree and shrub and leaf.

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The flowers breathe fragrance and unfold[br]their beauty in blessing to the world,

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the sun sheds its light to[br]gladden a thousand worlds.

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The ocean, itself the source of[br]all of our springs and fountains,

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receives the streams from[br]every land, but takes to give.

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The mists ascending from its bosom[br]fall in showers to water the earth,

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that it may bring forth and bud."