A wonderful life
or
Bridges to eternity
The eternal soul is at the center of many a personal theological garden.
It has also been at the core of every great vessel of belief back into the Stone Age.
These histories are all wonderfully romantic but they do not convey eternity well.
Our death is of no greater importance than our birth if we are eternal.
There is no day that has not already been experienced to it's fullest, many times.
Every life has been lived, every success savoured, every failure accepted.
The preacher told us there is nothing new under the sun.
To our eternal souls perhaps that is the exact truth, there is no novelty in living.
So what then is the purpose of living if this life has already been lived?
If we are eternal then coming to that realization while here would be unpleasant.
It would a be Wallace and Grommit moment, "What's all this then?
I much prefer the thought that this life is series of moments called "now".
"Now" has the same relation to eternity that a second has to lifetime.
It is difficult to live a life in seconds just as it is difficult to live in the now.
I find life is a lot of repetition, it just keeps coming and a lot of philosophies fail in that flow.
It is interspersed with illuminating moments but it is mostly unlit road.
And that is the way it should be, all of us are closed systems, we don't share a common eternity.
Heaven is a unique piece, everyone has a little bit of it in their set somewhere, it's often marked Hope.
As humans we aspire in a fashion that is perhaps our shared eternity.
I saw heaven yesterday, at the lake with my grandson, a father, in the water, playing with his small children.
Those children had such profound looks of love and joy as they focused on their father.
They were looks of pure happiness - in the moment, the person, without guile, totally innocent joy.
I cherish those moments, they make us profoundly human and perhaps help explain our eternal souls. |
