Showing posts with label Suffering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Suffering. Show all posts

Sunday, February 14, 2021

When death arrives

No one can escape death. So why we avoid so much thinking and preparing for it?
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Death is something that no one escapes. Rich, intellectual, poor, ignorant, good or bad, we will all die one day.

In a paradoxical way however, it is what we generally least think of. And sometimes, we don't even want to think about it!

However, we should keep in mind that if we inevitably go towards a certain destination, the correct thing to do is to prepare. As we would be if we were about to go on a long journey to a different country.

Not knowing exactly what weather we were going to find, we would take clothes for mild temperatures and clothes for very warm or very cold days.

We would also plan what we'd do when we arrived there.

So, how can we not think about the great and essential journey that we will take when we die, transferring ourselves from this world to another?

A world that is vibrant, where we will reunion with our ancestors.

Perhaps we should consider how to improve our wedding dress, the same one that the Evangelist describes in the parable of the wedding feast. Dress that is woven, in our day to day, by our way of thinking, acting, producing good or evil.

Perhaps it would be interesting to consider strengthening our links with the good God so that when that moment comes, we are ready.

And that prayer needs not be something memorized. It could be as spontaneous as this:

Lord, when I have to leave, allow me to be prepared. May there be peace in my conscience for not having done wrong to others.

May I be ready, with my bag of good deeds in an appropriate suitcase, without remorse for what has not been done and not done.

Allow the good Spirits to receive me and assist me in transposing the fragile vessel of earthly life to the immense vessel of Spirituality.

Who knows, Lord, you may even allow old loves to welcome me, bringing me hugs, flowers and smiles. Loves that left before, leaving a gap in my heart. Loves from other lives, always remembered by my immortal Spirit.

Allow, Heavenly Father, those who remain on Earth be in peace and accept my departure with the dignity of those who are aware that this journey is fast.

May they be able to restructure their lives, without my presence. May they continue in their journey of progress and struggles.

May I, now a pacified soul, enter the Spirituality eager to continue learning, working, as soon as I get over the tiredness of the earthly journey and any reflexes of physical disorders that have taken me the last days.

May I return to the home I left there, resuming tasks suspended for a while.

May I be allowed to travel through places I wished to visit, while incarnated so I can know spectacular places created by Your greatness.

Anyway, Lord, stay with me at that time.

Adapted from Momento Espírita, originally published on February 13, 2020.

Final Thoughts

Death is the only thing that no one can escape from. And since it's inevitable, will do we think so little about it? If we inevitably go towards a certain destination, the correct thing to do is to prepare. Prepare now with good actions. Prepare by choosing good over bad.

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Sunday, December 20, 2020

Planting and Harvesting

Could you explain why we suffer? Could you explain why some suffer more than others?
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According to the dictionaries, freewill is the possibility to decide, to choose according to one's will, free from any conditioning.

And that is how Divinity - the supreme intelligence of the universe - allows us to conduct our existence. To make decisions in our lives we only depend on our own judgment, on our personal analysis, on confronting our own conscience.

The Divine Providence, in an educational way, provides us with the opportunity for choices. And, for the sake of justice, it offers us, as a learning experience, the full consequences of our actions.

That is how the judge will answer for what he does in the courts. The executive will account for the management of the resources under his responsibility. The public manager will face consequences proportional to the quality of his actions. The teacher will be responsible for the good or bad made during the course of the profession. The employee will be considered for the quality of his actions and conduct.

We are free to make our decisions

We are free to make our decisions. However, once they are executed, we link ourselves to them and become either victims or beneficiaries of them. We may act in any way we believe is appropriate or convenient but we will have to account for everything we do.

Nobody deceives the all-seeing Divine Justice, from the insignificant to the most expressive acts. Erroneous attitudes, even those hidden from men, those that we believe we have managed to circumvent human justice, do not go unnoticed by the Divine Justice. Therefore acting positively, ethically, is a matter of wisdom. All the good that we do, even if silently and anonymously will be counted in our personal accounts.

For this reason, every difficulty that we face now are nothing more than debts of the past. And they reach us now because the Divinity understands that we have the conditions to pay them off. Thanks to this mechanism designed by God - which is always just and correct - we are provided with the chance to repair previous mistakes.

Final Thoughts

Out of kindness and in favor of our balance, the Heavenly Father offers us to forget our criminal past, so that we can better face its consequences. The understanding of Divine Justice, a lucid, reason-based faith twill give us encouragement to continue our journey.

We are heirs of our actions. Nothing that happens to us is due to divine punishment, heavenly revenge, or forgetting the loving and good Father. Our misfortunes are the consequences of not observing the law of love and they are an invitation to reflection and learning, so that love, effectively, establishes itself in our intimacy.

In this light, we will understand pain as a blessing, a cheater of our lives. It will lead us to higher levels of evolution.

Adapted from Momento Espírita, originally published on June 13, 2015.

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