Absent from the body
What is life? What is death? When this life is over do we start a new life in a different realm? Heaven or hell? (I am not answering these
questions in this blog)
I had anxiety issues for a few yrs re: death. I was fearful of leaving home for fear of impending death. I'd have fears of dying in a car accident. Every time
I had the privilege to fly, I was fearful that the airline was going to crash and burn. Other than that, I really love to fly. Fear of death had control over my life. It was my Pharaoh, and I was a stiff-necked Jew in Egypt's bonds.
There are many theories as to what happens when we die. Many of these theories are faith-based. Mormons believe that they can attain 'God-status.'
Some believe that we return as a different person. Others believe that we return as a rock, a blade of grass, a mosquito.
Many people believe that the end of this life is the end of your existence, sans heaven and hell.
Christianity teaches that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. And yet to some, this is a promise only to those who have died in Christ.
I no longer fear death. I reverence death. I don't want to meet him any time soon. I'd like to give this life a chance and live it to the fullest. When that day approaches I would like to look death face to face, smile and say "You have lost your sting."
A few nights ago I had a dream that I had died:
I felt my heart beat really hard "thump" "thump" and I fell onto the floor. I tried to lift myself up off of the floor like a poor attempt at a push-up. My heart gave a final excruciating THUMP. I collapsed completely -DEAD!!! Then I successfully lifted myself up and off of the floor, but I was out of my body.
I did not see a light. There were no demons around to usher me into eternal flames. I felt alive and without restraint. Fear did not have the audacity to grace my presence.
This is where I am supposed to leave a concluding paragraph. I'm not going to. *grin*
Why don't you share your own thoughts about
death, and why people fear it?
No Wax,
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"A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul." ~Erich Fromm
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain
"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" I Cor. 15:55
"We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." II Cor. 5:8
I'm not sure how I feel about that now, lol
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