Death As Balance

MON., JAN. 19, 1987, 2:03 PM
FARM, STUDY

You anticipate the beginning of a new term this week, which includes another class focusing on death… and perhaps at least two conversations where this will be a major theme. Hear, o son, as I, the Holy Spirit, teach you again of this need for balance and, hence, a need for death. And yet physical death need not mean more than a move to another form or to another “place”.

You are familiar with ecological thinking, and that is the way I want you to think about this earth. The only important difference is the understanding that I am the Creator of this whole plane, as well as the Creator and Sustainer of all life… and that, therefore, spirit is a pervasive force in this ecological “balancing act.” Oh, I have set this whole system up so that is basically self-sustaining and renewing; I don’t have to be continuously involved in making the sun shine, the winds blow, plants grow, etc. It is a good working system.

One important principle in this earth system is the need for balance. It is a dynamic rather than a static system so it rarely will be in perfect equilibrium. When there is an excess of some sort, there needs to be a balancing force. Each body that is healthy has interacting systems, so that if there is some infusion of organisms that could cause sickness, the body produces and sets into functioning cells that counter the effects of the intruders and restore healthy balance. This, of course, is one of the means by which any form of life survives in order to reproduce and live beyond that.

Death is not well thought of by most humans, and they do not like the thought that their very lives are sustained by the deaths of plants and animals that become food. Here is where the balance starts. Human life could not be maintained without food, and food is (until the development of synthetics) other forms of life. One form of life becomes food for another, and so it goes, in circular, balanced fashion. This is part of My created plan, and since death must come before food, death is an important part of this plan.

In some humans death comes because the balance that sustains life cannot be restored. Conversely, those who live long lives are those who are best at maintaining balance, internally and with the external world and all of its challenges. Medications and other treatments do help some individual, but these, all together, are minor factors in this whole phenomenon of balance. Much medicine given is of no real value, certainly less important than “natural” means of reestablishing balance.

There must needs be a balance between human life and its demands on the earth and other forms of life. I love humans, but rarely am I ever “bothered” by the death of any person or any number of persons. For I do see, in My Wisdom, that any death is always part of a new balance. Oh, I can feel sorrow at what one who dies could have achieved, but when I see this against what many who are alive are not doing, it usually seems less than dramatic. Also when one is gone, what he did can now be done by another.