The Outer Gates

No matter how far away we stray from God, we are never totally separated from Him. That is not to say that our distance from the Lord will have no effect on us. How could it not? We will lose protections, our hearts will slowly become cold and less able to love, and we may even begin to get the ridiculous notion that we can survive on our own without Him in our lives. Just as the lonely outer planets of our solar system rely less and less on the sun the farther away they orbit from it, we too become colder, darker, with less and less light and very little signs of life. But even there, in the vast darkness of space, so far from the warmth of the sun, it still influences them . . . whether they take note of it or not.