I quote:
Guard me as the apple of your eye.
Hide me in the shadow of your wings.
As for me, in my justice I shall see your face
and be filled, when I awake, with the sight of your glory
unquote
The theme of today's readings is resurrection, a daily reality facing each of us, when the sun rises and we face a new day filled with opportunity to improve on yesterday's life.
Metaphysics has never attracted me to its theories, and presumptions for life is lived in the moment, with an awareness that all that we are is expressed through our being human. On the other hand, there are moments in the life of every human person when we detect another presence within our conscious awareness influencing us to do this, rather than that.
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Some time ago I related the experiences of my psychologist friend, Jose retired and living in his home city of Bilbao, Spain. Jose and his wife visited me in July this year with a wish to catch up, and discuss in some depth his life following his adjustment to another reality of understanding his life's purpose. Jose's life affirming experience inspired him to understand that his previous view of life had been transformed upside, down enabling him to learn that there is more to the human person than flesh, and blood gurgling its way through our daily routines until journey's end. More on Jose's views in a later post.
Biblical stories that attempt to convey to the reader the physical resurrection of Jesus helps us come to terms with our death. This is where the resurrection story begins, when understanding that death of our flesh is our entry into eternal being with Our Father.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. – Khalil Gibran
It has been my experience that those whom we have known, and loved gone to their eternal rest remain an influence upon our lives, there being an awareness that they never leave us. Some would argue this is all about treasured memories, despite also realising that at critical moments in our life a powerful intervention from within our being inspires us to reverse a momentous decision that could have led us to disaster. Later we understand that our choice to alter our earlier decision was life saving, sufficient to ponder the possibility that the reversal of our earlier choice was not a coincidence.
Here the discussion might well begin on why, or how these conversion episodes are able to influence us to make a dramatic change in how we live our life. Another topic, for another day.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. – Marcus Aurelius
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