As a health care provider, perhaps you would think my view is skewed on the subject of illness. It is true that many of the people in my life are in need of upliftment, either physically or emotionally. I am most pleased to serve in the capacity of "healing angel" on any level. Still I can not help but notice that overwhelming numbers of people are either dealing with serious illness themselves or confronting health concerns in someone that they care about.
Is there a larger picture in all of this? I personally believe that there is always a "bigger picture" for us to contemplate. I think that the Earth is currently housing an incredible number of souls... and that a vast majority of those same souls are setting sail for the big journey Home.
In the current paradigm we must leave the physical body through the vehicle of death, and that is the transformation that I would like to discuss today.
In many cultures human beings are innately fearful about death. We are unprepared, in Western culture, to see death as the opportunity for transformation that it is. I don't pretend that contemplating my own demise is a completely fearless thing... but I do realize that it is not death that frightens me so much as the "dying"... I fear pain, not the transformation itself. I think if we all looked at it for a moment we just might realize we hold similar thoughts of our own.
Many religions teach differing views of the afterlife, but most of them concede that the soul is immortal. The soul can not be burned by fire, nor sunk in the ocean... it can not be ended by any means on Earth, only the body ends. The body is like a car really... you love it a lot while you've got it, but one day it just doesn't serve you as well as it once did and you trade it in on a new one. Now where is all the drama in that?
When our friends and loved ones pass on, no matter what the reason or circumstance, it would go much easier for everyone if we allowed ourselves to see the "bigger picture". Our loved one is not gone, but only out of sight for a time. We should learn to trust in a plan... all artists have a plan of some kind, how could something as wonderful as this planet be random? There is an artist, and when we transition, no matter how it comes about, there is a precise agenda. I don't mean to advise total detachment, we are human and endowed with emotions, use them. See what occurs around you, but if you can, try to see a larger picture as well. It is in knowing ourselves as being a part of the plan AND apart from the plan that we find the freedom to live.
When those we love manifest a method of transition, they most need our support and our love... not our tears and fears. It is for them in this time that we need to grow strong... help them to overcome illness if you can, but if they need to go then honor that, and give them dignity and support. In growing beyond our own fear, we serve a much greater purpose, we serve each other.
Be mindful always,
Deni
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The Critical Question
Perspective Cultivates Patience
Breatharianism
The Choice to Live
World Peace
