A Simple Guy’s View of Life’s End

05/30/2008

A few months ago I promised not to write about sad things; I said this website was for entertainment and happy stuff.  This may bend the rules a bit, but I really don’t mean for it to do so.

I have a loved one who has decided to no longer submit to a harsh cancer treatment, but rather to allow her fate to “God’s will.” The whole family supports the decision, though we pray for a miracle to remove the cancer that may take life from someone way too young.

I don’t look at myself as being overly smart or with intelligence greater than anyone else.  I am not a learned man; I do not possess a college degree.  I am just a regular guy with a new view on life, God, and what is next.

For most of my adult life I have been on a search for God.  I accepted God’s existence when I did the nonreligious-based workshops in Dallas; however, I could not define what God is or meant to me.  Still, it was truly a tremendous epiphany for me.  My “God” search began when I was a teenager and ended just short of my 61st birthday.

“I tried to find him on the Christian cross, but he was not there; I went to the Temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas, but I could not find a trace of Him anywhere.

“I searched on the mountains and in the valleys but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find Him.  I went to the Caaba in Mecca, but He was not there either.

“I questioned the scholars and the philosophers but he was beyond their understanding.

“I then looked into my heart and it was there He dwelled that I saw Him; He was nowhere else to be found.” Jelaluddin Rumi

Last Father’s Day my daughter gave me “Conversations with God” by Neale Donald Walsch.  As I read it I found the God I was looking for all those years.  Many of you may not see or find what I found when I read this book, but I encourage you to read it anyway.

My God does not judge, He only observes.  My God gave you and me “free will,” and will not punish you or me for using the gift He gave to us.  My God wants me to be the “The grandest version of the greatest vision I have ever had of Who I Truly Am.” And, I believe this to be true.  I now have a personal, one-on-one relationship with God, and I love it.  God speaks to me.  Okay?

Death is just a phase of our total existence.  The lifetime in the body that our spirit resides in is but a mere speck of time compared to the forever-ness of the life of our Soul.  Notice “our Soul.” There is but one Soul and it is the Soul of God, and our spirit is merely an “individuation of the Soul of God.” When a body has served the intended purpose of the spirit the spirit moves on, exactly as it is supposed to do and always has.  Its will is God’s will.  Simple as that!!!  Don’t agree?  Afraid not to believe in a Judgment Day?  That’s okay.  It’s still called free will.  Death of the body is not death of the spirit.  The spirit has no lifetime, it just is. 

I am not afraid of death.  I am not afraid to die.  I now know my spirit will live on and perhaps I will get to do this all again – if I choose.

And that is all I have to say about that…