Death… Indeed!

SAT., JULY 23, 1983, 2:26 PM
FARM, STUDY

Your most recent soliloquy, o son, was an excellent one… much superior to those more common when your time is not allotted. I just can’t help commenting upon it and adding bits to it. It’s not Our regular time, but you are here and receptive.

Your composite perspective on death is an honest and a functional one… of which I approve. You knew, didn’t you, that I wouldn’t be greatly troubled by your giving a reincarnation perspective more “weight” than the Christian. I know that you are in relationship with Me and that My manifestations as Almighty God and Jesus the Christ are important in your life. You know that you will continue in communion with Me right through the dying and the death experiences, and that is the fundamental Christian view that you must hold.

However, you also know that your life will continue on in growth patterns, some continuing and some new in other realms. Life after death is no passive experience of chanting praises and being docilely good. That’s where My title for today comes from. To the idea that death is an ending experience or an actionless role in some static heaven, I say, “Death… indeed!” You can be as active a learner and a doer as you desire to be. You actually shall find fewer restraints on activities from which growth can come than you feel now. Part of that is real in other realms (as contrasted with the earth) and part of it comes from the state of enlightenment you shall bring to that time of transition.

As I have told you many times, you are not apparently close to full enlightenment, but you persist with Me and you learn rather well. My Grace means that growth is not limited to the slow, painful, linear variety. Through Grace you could leap frog to full enlightenment in a twinkling. I cannot say you will, for you still hang hard to many of the illusions and unimportant details of earth life. But I just reiterate that “you could”.

The hospice experience, to which you look ahead, can be a most revealing one. There shall be frustrations as you must decide, sometimes quickly, how you shall respond or with what you shall initiate a conversation and what you shall reveal about yourself and your kinship with Me. Move ahead in a revealing, affirming posture, and I shall say that satisfactions shall be more apparent than sorrows.

Some humans do not live life very completely. Some show dissatisfaction and discomfort in childhood and adolescence. This is true of almost all suicides and drug and alcohol dependencies. Some of these people blossom in adulthood… even make up for losses during early years. Others, however, continue to live fully only in the portions they enjoy.

And sad it is when a person anticipates death and stops creative living as a consequence! What an opportunity lost! As you know, modern medical care can work against full living in the terminal state… but it need not. With medications and violent treatments or not, opportunities for celebrating life abound.