He who saves his life shall lose it and he who loses his life shall find it. The whole purpose of redemption is for man to surrender to the Divine. It is a demand for a complete and total surrender. A losing of life in order to find it. The process may be gradual but aboslutely necessary. As we die, we begin to sense we are coming alive. The life of God flows from within us as we let go of the old. It is a fall into the lake of life. A Divine exchange – life for death, blessings for curses, success for failure. As we learn to die, we learn to live.