Death Of The Young, Continued

FRI., APR. 14, 1995, 6:10 AM
FARM, STUDY

You wonder whether I have more to say about this theme, on which you will speak early next week. Well, I have, and you’re not surprised. Yet I’ll caution you right now to be aware of your 50 minute time limit and of all that you’re preparing. It could easily be excessive. Be sure to practice it, so that you’ll have an actual sense of what you should include… and what will be left out… even some of what I teach you.

The perspectives We’ve developed are a good way to begin, for while there is Christian dominance in your culture it also is a multicultured society, with all of these perspectives represented, fully or as a part of the way persons view life and death. You can see that you will have to limit your focus to prenatal, infancy and early childhood, even as you should mention that there can be losses on into adolescence that are hard to deal with in different ways.

One point to emphasize, which is important for your dominant humanistic culture, is that of responsibility and guilt. There is strong feeling in many Americans that when a death occurs, as in a miscarriage, in the birthing process, even into early childhood, someone is responsible and someone is to blame. When there is such an assumption, it seems good to have someone else to blame, rather than assuming blame oneself. Even some who believe in Me and regularly worship Me still may have a sense, weak to strong, that I would not want any death to occur, and therefore they must be responsible. It is sad when such a feeling causes a separation of thee and Me… and it does happen.

Remember that in the Christian perspective I urge on you life and death are finally in My Hands. I’m not saying that there is no human responsibility. Yet I have ultimate Power, and I prevent many deaths and hasten some others. I have this power, so when I don’t use it to prevent a death this inaction is a form of action. It is good to feel responsible, up to a point. Yet recall that you always share such with Me.

It shall be difficult to envision the life after life perspective for a late term miscarriage or the death at birth or in early childhood. See, you can’t come up with an acceptable picture of being met by loved ones who have died previously when you have had little or no earth life. This almost forces you to the reality that the soul is not “bound” to a baby’s body. One’s spiritual “body” can take any form that makes it recognizable to others. Not being able to walk or talk is no handicap. The development and maturity… the “age”… of the soul is the crucial factor. But you probably won’t get into this.

Be sure and note, even emphasize, that the ecological perspective on death of the young encounters the Christian perspective in My being the Creator and Sustainer of all life and in My desire to maintain a balance of life forms. Virulent organisms do not mutate and appear outside of My Omniscience. More deaths must occur, to match the births. Some of these will be infants and children, unable to adapt to the effects of smaller creatures yet.