Imagine – you are going on a journey and your mother says you should take your clothes and some books to read – here we have the journey of life – for three simultaneous realities have occurred a. there is a manual, b. you are given the freedom and c. when you follow it, it is not that you are a. distinct (as you are following it) but b., nor are you dependent; so in actual fact, God’s intent, c. that you and God, merge.