As one grows older the preoccupation will not be your failing body, or the inevitability of death, but rather all the physical, emotional and mental harm you may have bestowed upon others, especially upon the ones you love. All of life’s most important possessions are stored in the heart and mind, not on the mantel or bank account. Age reminds you that all that matters will soon become lost, and all your shortcomings will experience new life.
In life we spend a great deal of time underpinning our success and deflecting adversity. We fail to see the damage of the wrecking ball because all the damage and chaos the ball created found a way of resolving itself, and if it did not, it mattered not, for you left the collateral damage behind. The later realization will be that it did not heal the hidden scars. Those become visible when the thinned flesh turns brittle and wrinkled, and the eyes see past the collapsing sinew.
Photographs will remind you of a time long ago, and ignite memories as vivid as the day they were taken. The mind will recall what it had stored in memory - just like a computer. Disease may confuse the images but not the emotions. The heart may age, falter and one day stop, but the heart is the life-long repository of all the good and bad you may have created and experienced. The mind may stop processing what is in the repository but the heart never will.
It is at this time that you will question your life, your journey and all the harm, not the good, that you have done, for the harm will weigh down your soul. A soul that is free of trouble, that sought no harm to others, that embraced civility and fair play, will float away, not stutter. That is the objective of life; to float away, like a warm kiss blown from one lover to another. Your acquiescence and indifference will measure the damage you have done to the entire hologram, for we are all part of the universal One-ship. While the hologram is the creation of God, and in absolute perfection at all times, its intended perception may become unnecessarily veiled, and distorted by human evil.
If you have spent your time hidden behind the veil, done the unnecessary and malevolent work of others, held back the brilliance of a comrade, so that mediocrity stifled progress for all, if you have shunned those who attempted to liberate you from ignorance, and ridiculed someone from afar because you feared their presence, then your ignorance failed to assist all those your generosity could have touched.
A valuable lesson learned at the end of life will likely sooth your soul but leave an emptiness for those who participate in your passing, and for the potential eternity that awaits you.
Jesus came to pay a debt He did not owe because we owed a debt we could not pay. Thank Jesus for the opportunity He provided so that death becomes a welcomed foe.
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