In this sermon The Cry of the Mountain, we learn that our choices matter. Our choices of who we spend our time with and with whom we share our thoughts and dreams with are of utmost importance.  Every time we make a choice we're turning the central part of ourselves. The part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. Taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you're slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow creatures, and with itself.  To be the one kind of creature is heaven: that is, it is joy and peace and knowledge and power.  To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, and eternal loneliness.  Each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state or the other.