An Upcoming “Talk”

TUES., OCT. 30, 1990, 6:11 AM
FARM, STUDY

This upcoming opportunity of yours should be called a sermon, but the Unitarians are more comfortable calling it a “talk” or a message. You haven’t directly planned it, but you feel that you shall have plenty to say. Naturally I shall advise you, and you expected such assistance.

Death seems so terrible when it is portrayed as you saw it last evening. After a long life of not loving any person, a man falls in love with a woman. She soon develops cancer, has some remission, but then dies, leaving him sorely grieving. A marvelous, loving relationship ruined by death. Yet on this very day other people wait for loved ones to die, for there is no evidence that these still-living bodies have a soul, with a spark of humanness. The panorama of life goes on, with new lives replacing old ones. This is My plan for life here in the earth.

As I have told you before, grieving can be a deep spiritual experience, with a genuine sense of loss for a person truly loved. This can be a beautiful postscript to human love – for a spouse, for a child, even for a good friend. But I also have told you that other grieving can be selfish and self-centered… an excuse for not getting on with precious life and finding new persons to love. I, of course, can discern the difference as it is displayed in humans, and I am particularly disappointed when “good Christians” grieve overlong. When souls have a loving relationship here in the earth it is most likely that they shall be reunited in some heavenly realm. Yet when you move out of time and space the “coming together” is much simpler than it seems just after a death.

What you now call near death experiences are tiny windows that give a view of life beyond the earth. The one who has died can be aware of much that is happening but cannot communicate back in the usual ways. It takes some ingenuity to communicate back to “live” people, but it obviously can be done. However, despite loves that have been experienced here in the earth, the imperative is to love where you are. Most persons who have loves in the earth experience a renewal of other loves as they pass on over. Then when the one on earth dies the spiritual reunion can be marvelous… and as if no time had elapsed.

You must make some mention of the ecological realities of earth life. If you love new babies and small children and feel that these are a wonderful aspect of life, then there must be “room for them.” A basic law of the earth is that there must be deaths in order for young life to flourish. Much of what modern medicine does in prolonging the lives of old, infirm persons is counter to this law, even as there is some value in old persons. These are hard choices, and they shall get harder as the human population increases.

Life in the earth is a unique gift. Many, many spirits never experience it, while some are here repeatedly. Life should be lived fully and joyously, and then when the body or the mind can no longer function death should be accepted, even welcomed, as one small means for others to have this earth experience in some “good condition.” It is the ultimate spiritual gift… giving up one’s life so that others might live. And remember that for most people in the earth, even this day, there isn’t much “noble sacrifice,” for the medical care to sustain their lives is simply not available.