Notes

The Christian Response To Death
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The loss of a loved one leads you into very murky emotional waters. Your own life and belief systems are thrown to the wind when someone you know dies. You question yourself, your existence and the whole purpose of the universe. Death leaves its mark on us no matter how close or not-so-close we were with someone who just died.



Have you ever come to a red light and didn't want to stop? You could see the side streets were empty, so you knew it was "safe" to run the red light-i.e., you weren't going to hit another car. Did you stop anyway? If so, why? Or maybe you didn't stop, because you didn't see any police cars and figured your chances of getting caught were virtually nil. No police cars equated to no deterrent.

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People in the neighborhood are often helpful when a neighbor dies. They can keep an eye out for suspicious activity as well. However, they may not be aware that your Loved One has died. Enlist their eyes, ears and assistance.

We physical beings are chronically dying and being reborn. As one cell degenerates and dies, another is quickly recreated in its place. And even our life experiences are forms of death. You are not the infant you once were, nor the child, nor the adolescent. Life itself is a never ending stream of dying and birthing.

Till death do us part, but how untrue that notion is. Death is never far from us all. Does death mean to lay motionless and that our body ceases to regenerate itself; or does death mean something more abstract and recent? If we examine death more closely, we would realize that death happens within us in every frame of our existence. Even as we breathe, the last breath dies as we inhale the next. While we breathe, our thoughts fade in and fade out, interweaving with life and death at every moment. In physical death, the consciousness lives on, born into another form, yet never all that far from the one which we just left.

Muhammad suggested, "Die before you die or you'll die a thousand deaths." Jesus said, "Deny yourself." The self you are to deny--that must die--is not the self you really are. How could it be? It must be instead "the mind-made self"--the you, you think is you. It must be the you, you see in a mirror--what Albert Einstein called "the optical illusion in consciousness." It could not be the you, you really are. As long as you confuse the house wherein you live, however, with the person you really are, there will be resistance to aging or, more accurately, to dying and to death.

Is it that I'm just not smart enough to make money from home. Or, not cut out to run my own business. Maybe I'm not looking at it the way I should. Could it just be too hard for me to follow the instruction's, and direction's I'm told to, in order to succeed? Maybe there is no explanation. Maybe what will be will be. And just maybe, I am a sucker that was born in that minute.






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