I grew up always building things and around people who built things

 So, as I was growing up I was always watching people like my Dad and his friends building things, like rebuilding cars for racing on the streets or my father being an electrician for a living and eventually an Electrical Contractor by the time I was 12 years old. So, building things, repairing things, inventing new ways to do things was always 2nd nature to me and the men in my family.

My father had been valedictorian of his senior high school Class but his father wouldn't let him become an Electrical Engineer like he wanted to even though he let his daughters go to college to try to marry college men who were college graduates. And this actually worked for one of his daughters.

So, building things and thinking more like an engineer would about inventing and engineering things that work was the way I was taught to think always. My father's hero likely was  Nicola Tesla who invented Alternating current and fluorescent lighting and the Tesla coil and stuff like this which was amazing for the era in which he invented it in.

And I was fascinated by a book I read about Thomas Edison and how someone picked Edison up by his ears so he wouldn't fall under a train and how he invented the incandescent light which really changed the world a lot when he did that and other things as well.

Here are 5 things that Thomas Edison invented (but he invented many more things than this):

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• Incandescent Light Bulb. “I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” ...
• Electricity. “There are no rules here – we're trying to accomplish something.” ...
• Phonograph. ...
• Motion Picture Camera. ...
• Alkaline Batteries.
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• https://www.google.com/search?q=what+did+edison+invent&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS750US750&oq=what+did+edison+invent&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l7.5062j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

So, even when I decided around age 15 to become enlightened in this lifetime I approached it from an engineering point of view and through the scientific method.

I had already watched a lot of people die because they didn't believe in Doctors in my church. So, I saw how a scientific approach even to enlightenment likely was the difference in many cases between life and death.

So, even in the 1950s my approach was: People who aren't practical tend to die a lot for all sorts of reasons. This was because I watched people who believed in things they couldn't prove dying all around me. And I loved many of these people and many were under 30 years old that died so the fear of not becoming dead before my time put the fear of God into me to try to become practical enough young enough so I didn't die too.

As I grew up I found that being afraid of God was counter productive past a certain point. It was much better to be friends with God and able to talk to God all the time and Ask him and his angels what you needed to know. This worked much better to work from friendship and the joy of friendship.

If you are terrified of God then you aren't doing it right.

Also, I learned that "The Letter of the law might kill but the spirit of the law gives life and is full of Grace".

So, I tried to always live in such a way that I lived in Grace with the Spirit of God's Law intact. If I lived this way I would never be afraid again of God.

If you are afraid of God then you have made God your enemy and this isn't right.

But, if you are joyful every time you see God then this is the way to be.

Being Joyful and Grateful to be in the presence of God is what it's all about.

By God's Grace