Κύριος carries the full weight of authority, possession and command. In this teaching the Lord is the one who holds sovereign control over all the energies that sustain the universe.

Not distant. His arrival in my life was the Lord entering it forcefully, like weather.

During the relaxation, when my attention kept sliding off toward other things, he stopped me.

It is His own saying, he reminded me, that you cannot serve two Lords. I admit I had often given the impression of wanting not two but three or four. That splitting, he told me, would cut me to pieces. The journey I could only bring through undivided.